Example sentences of "in a long [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dark , grey-streaked hair , which she wore in a long bob , had been cut by Vidal Sassoon and she wore a beautifully tailored black suit relieved only by a little white flounce at the neckline . |
| 2 | She was a pretty girl , with expressive dark grey eyes , and dark brown hair in a long bob . |
| 3 | The BBC found itself embroiled in a long series of disputes with the government , partly over its financing , partly over alleged anti-government reporting of such episodes as the Libyan bombing raids in 1986 ( covered by an able woman reporter , Kate Adie ) . |
| 4 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 5 | Although the most comprehensive , this was only the latest in a long series of hard-hitting reports on Indian prisons , most of which echoed familiar themes . |
| 6 | Although the mechanism of accumulation of the humbled bones presents a puzzle , the discoveries of the latest in a long series of excavations by Spanish workers , reported on page 534 of this issue , seem not only to have settled the question of the affinities of the Atapeuerca hominids , but also promise to clarify our understanding of the evolution of humans in Europe . |
| 7 | We know that in the eleventh century the Jurassic Way in Oxfordshire was the main road to Northampton , probably joining it with the important town of Gloucester , and throughout the Middle Ages it was a market-road , linking one market town with the next in a long series . |
| 8 | Starting in the 1920s she became increasingly interested in floral morphology ; in a long series of papers in the Annals of Botany and the New Phytologist she recorded her observations on vascular and carpelary structure in a wide range of flowers . |
| 9 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95ยท4 per cent of the time . |
| 10 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95.4 per cent of the time . |
| 11 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |