Example sentences of "[vb -s] long [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No prospect of the green shoots of economic recovery ’ , said Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson ; ‘ new hardcover literary fiction , unless by well-established authors , will sell , if that is possible , even fewer copies , to the point of virtual extinction ’ , said Tom Rosenthal ; ‘ fiction … has long since become all by a branch of gynaecology ’ , said Colin Haycraft . |
| 2 | The whole PWL format has long since lost any spark of life and songs like ‘ Too Much Of A Good Thing ’ and ‘ Finer Feelings ’ are simply uninspiring , totally predictable and tedious . |
| 3 | ( An annual outing to the seaside has long ago displaced this occasion . ) |
| 4 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 5 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |