Example sentences of "so [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 2 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 3 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 4 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 5 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |