Example sentences of "in a [adj] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head was then pickled in a ten-foot long tin box , and the rotting body returned to the ocean . |
| 2 | You can do it , you do n't have to do it in a great long line , you can do it in a sort of cube or something . |
| 3 | Plants were grown from seed in a 38-m long chamber in a ventilated glasshouse . |
| 4 | Tomorrow Aileen goes to Mossend in Lanarkshire where some residents have been involved in a ten-year long row with travelling people who live on their doorstep . |
| 5 | She had not specially noticed the heat before but now she did as droplets of sweat formed themselves on her forehead and her upper lip , as sweat in a single long drop rolled very cold and insinuating down between her breasts . |