Example sentences of "by a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the sleeve of Dot 's coat was clawed at by a long briar . |
| 2 | Those two there that look like twins half an inch apart : they may in fact be nauseatingly sundered by a long light-time of depth , united only by the angle of our point of view . |
| 3 | It was the best Australian performance so far , by a long way . |
| 4 | The little double planet Pluto has such a weird orbit that , even though almost all of the time it is by a long way the furthest known planet from the Sun , occasionally ( as at the time of writing ) it is closer to the Sun than is Neptune . |
| 5 | The image of Neil Young as the wayward eccentric does n't tell the whole story , not by a long way . |
| 6 | He plays both but his preference , and by a long way , is for gaelic football . |
| 7 | It is , by a long way , the greatest test yet of whether he is up to the job . |
| 8 | The AS/400 is by a long way IBM Corp 's most successful current product line yet Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc , generally regarded as the largest player in the AS/400 applications market , seems to be less than confident about the future of the line . |
| 9 | UltraFAX was the best of the bundled packages I looked at , by a long way , and made using the Ascom AM2496F a joy . |
| 10 | Tom Emmett 's story is laced with thick Yorkshire dialect ; Ted Barratt , another left-arm bowler , prolific but unlucky , is rescued from the deepest obscurity of them all ; the colourful George Ulyett is seen as ‘ a sort of Victorian Ian Botham ’ , and was involved in the scandal over match-rigging on the 1881–82 tour of Australia ( to say nothing of a gatecrashing at 10 Downing Street ) ; the weird William Scotton lurks here too ; and the elegant but equally tragic Willie Bates ; and the outrageous Bobby Peel , the longest-lived of them all , by a long way , and the fourth Yorkie in the collection . |
| 11 | Moreover , the pretty paper kites in the clear blue skies still outnumber the documentary versions by a long way . |
| 12 | In that household , it 's likely that adults come first by a long way ; children are expected to conform , and tidiness takes precedence over fun . |
| 13 | In the home market , it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold ; Pan came next , with 2,181,514 . |
| 14 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 15 | It is n't as valuable by a long way . ’ |
| 16 | Not through choice , not by a long way , but it was where I 'd made my destiny , even if as an alien . |
| 17 | ‘ In my job , old boy , I 've learned that truth is stranger than fiction by a long way . ’ |
| 18 | The expense allowances they received often failed , sometimes by a long way , to cover the costs they had to meet . |
| 19 | Not all of those people by a long way have any olympic ambitions but is nonetheless an important part of the perspective and indeed at the triangle that we need to support . |
| 20 | I will say that because as , we have n't heard the end by a long way for , of this one . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've not finished with you yet — not by a long way ! ’ |
| 22 | Jimmy Smith polled ten per cent … surprisingly he was beaten by Steve Coppell … but the top two were way ahead … second big Billy Hamilton the ex United striker … and top by a long way the man who could n't live at the Manor with the Maxwells … |
| 23 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 24 | In a poll , published last week , asking voters to rank in order of priority the issues they most wanted discussed during the election campaign , unemployment came top by a long way , followed by worries about the funding of the badly-indebted State pension and social security fund , and then education and training . |
| 25 | Mm by a long way . |
| 26 | He 'd be faster than me at long distance , by a long way . |
| 27 | I suppose Nirvana are the best of a bad lot by a long way . |
| 28 | Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track . |
| 29 | There is the standard , spacious , minimally-furnished living room , tastefully carpeted in subdued oatmeal and dominated by a long sofa and oversized TV . |
| 30 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |