Example sentences of "a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall ask your indulgence of a rather long exposition , Mr Chairman . |
| 3 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 4 | Ilse was a slim attractive country girl of eighteen , with bobbed black hair and a rather long nose . |
| 5 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 6 | The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade . |
| 7 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 8 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 9 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 10 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 13 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |
| 14 | The tenant should therefore initially attempt to delete clause 5.2.2 , but if this is not accepted a sufficiently long date should be inserted in it . |
| 15 | Therefore , before a conclusion is reached , tests must be continued for a sufficiently long time to demonstrate an adequate shelf-life in the market concerned . |
| 16 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 17 | The data reported by Kovacs in section 12.9 imply that the observed T g would decrease further if a sufficiently long time for measurement was allowed . |
| 18 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 19 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 20 | Fussler and Simon , in Patterns in the use of books in large research libraries , affirmed that ‘ past use over a sufficiently long period is an excellent and by far the best predictor of future use ’ , although they observed , ‘ the confidence limits of prediction vary significantly from one subject to another ’ . |
| 21 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 22 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 23 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 24 | Of course , as is illustrated by the decision of the NIRC in Hare v Murphy Brothers Ltd , 1974 KIR 57 , a sufficiently long prison sentence will constitute a unilateral repudiation of the contract by the employee . |
| 25 | That 's about thirty miles each way — a terribly long way to come , particularly as he would have to cross London . ’ |
| 26 | It is a terribly long question . |
| 27 | It was a terribly long journey , even though they broke it in Florida . |
| 28 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 29 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |