Example sentences of "which [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | First impressions are of a bass which looks very long , with a full-size body , 24-fret neck , 34″ scale length helping to keep the low B-string commendably taut , and an elegantly-shaped five-peg headstock . |
| 2 | One of these tunnels , which seemed awesomely long , black and terrifying , was , with gumption and at such times as the brook was not in full spate , explorable . |
| 3 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 4 | I am sure that if we could have met , all estrangement would have vanished instantly ; but , having to rely on the written word ( and that in the cramped space of air-letters which took so long to come and go ) , and missing expression of face and tone of voice , to which we were both very sensitive , we kept up our guard for a time . |
| 5 | We have however created this sub-heading for those techniques which offer more long term distraction than those mentioned previously . |
| 6 | Most Escherichia coli promoters studied so far form stable open complexes with σ 70 -RNA polymerase which have relatively long half-lives and , therefore , are resistant to a competitor challenge . |