Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 2 | In the 1370s the English , lacking good leadership and the necessary commitment of men and money to defend a long frontier ( available money might have been better spent on defence than on more popular campaigns through France ) , soon lost the ground which they had gained by treaty . |
| 3 | Cardiff was , of course , built on mud flats , and nature takes a long time to change . |
| 4 | Both orchestra and conductor have a long list of international commitments every year . |
| 5 | Free water , as in cerebrospinal fluid and urine has a long T2 of up to several seconds , whereas water bound in protein , as in muscle tissue , has a shorter T2 of some 100 ms . |