Example sentences of "with a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
| 2 | A search is now under way to find a medium with a reliably long shelf-life , because even if our present-day sound recordings last for a full century ( which is doubtful ) , our successors will have to copy the whole collection every hundred years or so . |
| 3 | Figure 18.9(a) and ( b ) have general illumination , ( a ) with a relatively long exposure so that details of the instability are blurred and ( b ) as a flash so that an instantaneous pattern is seen . |
| 4 | Radio waves are electromagnetic waves with a very long wavelength , measurable in metres . |
| 5 | It opens with a very long sex scene in a small apartment . |
| 6 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 7 | Clearly this is consistent both with a period of about a day and with a very long period . |
| 8 | Incessant monomorphic VT is another common form of proarrhythmia ; this arrhythmia is often the result of class 1c antiarrhythmic agents and usually has a QRS complex with a very long duration so that it appears ‘ sinusoidal ’ in contour . |
| 9 | On the next cast I touch-leger again , only with a fairly long loop of line pulled out from between butt-ring and reel ( see pages 15–17 ) . |
| 10 | It comes with an extra long lead and a fitted plug and costs £29.95 from Boots , Argos , leading department stores and electrical retailers . |
| 11 | A fat man of forty with an improbably long penis and a dense mass of wiry pubic hair . |
| 12 | He may also appear in the guise of a small grey water-horse or a lamb , always with an unusually long tail . |
| 13 | Uncle used to tell the story about one of the fiery kind , a real character , who delivered a sermon one Sunday in a chapel with an unusually long pulpit . |