Example sentences of "a long [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winning of " possession " in 1985 after a long struggle in the courts will prove to have been a shallow victory if the protection attaches [ sic ] to this status is to be further undermined , leaving absolute control once again in the hands of the " greater possessors " , the owners . |
| 2 | The village was four miles away , the walk back a long climb in the sun . |
| 3 | What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry . |
| 4 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 5 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 6 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 8 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 9 | This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) . |
| 10 | There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation . |
| 11 | The study of the state has a long history in the social sciences . |
| 12 | Whilst recognising that such a survey would be of only indirect relevance to their present situation , the firm has a long history in the area ( since 1890 ) , and its management has an acute awareness that the present local employment situation is likely to deteriorate further without a mix of public/private initiatives . |
| 13 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 14 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 15 | It was a long lunch in the presence of our new-found friend , the Rugby World Cup . |
| 16 | So here he has erm quite a long discussion in the fact that if you have inexperienced people , they will often make the make a quick initial assessment of a situation which is being and rejected by a more experienced person . |
| 17 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 18 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 19 | Tomorrow will be a long day in the auction house with no room to move . |
| 20 | We just sat ( there were two of us ) one on either side , outside her door at the end of a long corridor in The Inn On The Park hotel . |
| 21 | Supertop ran well for a long way in the season 's opener at Doncaster . |
| 22 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 23 | Surgical techniques for an artificial penis and scrotum were still experimental and any success there seemed a long way in the future . |
| 24 | It means they often have to fly the ball a long way in the air with very little run , depending , of course , on where the flag is . |
| 25 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 26 | Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear . |
| 27 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 28 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 29 | Defries , with Benny just behind her , was a long way in the other direction . |
| 30 | We can go a long way in the sociology of culture by studying cultural institutions , formations and means of production . |