Example sentences of "a very long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It opens with a very long sex scene in a small apartment . |
| 2 | The result can be a very long document in a complicated coding scheme , but it forms a powerful description of design information without any compromise made in accuracy . |
| 3 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 4 | This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe , which , in turn , meant that the object was a very long distance away . |
| 5 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 6 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |
| 7 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
| 8 | " And another one , " she held it towards him , a very long tumbler . |
| 9 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 10 | Even for a very long text , about half of the words found will only occur once . |
| 11 | No because that 's , we 've got a video going in now at nine o'clock , er , a very long pair of wires erm so what do I need here ? |
| 12 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 13 | However , with increasing store capacities and the presence of addressing mode fields , the use of three-address instructions makes for a very long instruction format , and the technique is not now used . |
| 14 | It was common for the storage building to be accompanied by a pair of kilns and a complete range of such structures might be erected adjacent to a very long storage building on a site where the cultivation of hops was undertaken intensively ( eg , at the hop farm of a brewery . ) |
| 15 | Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species . |
| 16 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 17 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |
| 18 | Hury is a very long reservoir . |
| 19 | She 's ninety-three now , so she has a , a very long memory of , of political causes . |
| 20 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 21 | You did n't have a very long sleep did you ? |
| 22 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
| 23 | A very long aisle is too far for the friends to walk down . |
| 24 | A Labour government would be wise to send him off to make a very long film in India . |
| 25 | It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich . |
| 26 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |
| 27 | I use 3-4lb main line and have either the feeder or the bomb on a very long paternoster link of 4-7 feet . |
| 28 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
| 29 | salvaged from a very long corridor ; |
| 30 | This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater . |