Example sentences of "a [adj] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds like she 's got a flipping long dress on and a straw hat . |
| 2 | a bloody long while . |
| 3 | Yes I 'm getting there , I know I know I know myself I 'm getting there , it 's just Like say , it 's just taking a bloody long while . |
| 4 | because a bloody long bonnet does n't impress |
| 5 | It was a bloody long way to go across London . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , it 's a bloody long way to go if you ask me . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a bloody long way . |
| 8 | And anyway , the kitchen 's such a bloody long way away . " |
| 9 | Be a bloody long job ! |
| 10 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 11 | But , even if he could write the thing quickly , all the subsequent processes took such a bloody long time . |
| 12 | a bloody long time . |
| 13 | dis I mean , it 's a bloody long time that train in n it ? |
| 14 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 15 | The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads , goes through Saintbury Church , noted for its pagan survivals , through a Bronze Age round barrow , a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort , through a Saxon pagan cemetery , and an eighteenth-century beacon tower , ending at an ancient farmstead , Seven Wells — which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl . |
| 16 | It is the key to the success of many effective organizations who have found that it is a sound long term investment . |
| 17 | Seven hundred and seventy eight patients with a clear long standing history ( at least three years ) of gastrooesophageal reflux symptoms . |
| 18 | In the words of the Swedish writer Nils Aberg : ‘ We are compelled … to assume a direct long distance influence between the Mediterranean world and Ireland . |
| 19 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 20 | Such an attack on a popular long distance walk in rural North Yorkshire seemed unthinkable . |
| 21 | This is a public long distance footpath which mainly follows the watershed , or divide , between the rivers . |
| 22 | A YOUNG Portadown businessman told today how a two-foot long piece of shrapnel which missed him by inches ended up embedded in an employee 's leg . |
| 23 | She turned the handle of the spit when the Algerian gigots were roasted , larded with garlic and anchovies , in a kind of oval cage of iron slats in front of a hot fire of vine-stumps inside the huge hearth ; she sat on a bench inside the cheminée , turning the ratchet as it wound down , basting the lamb with oil and its own juices from a diabolical long spoon . |
| 24 | Thus the 1980s are seen as marked by the wholesale adoption of new technology replacing the legacy of the past and setting the terms of a future long boom . |
| 25 | Luton 's resilience brought an equaliser in the 27th minute when a typical long throw from Pembridge was flicked on by Harford and in the goalmouth scramble Varadi , on loan from Leeds , scored on his debut . |
| 26 | Patients with severe oesophagitis ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) and adenocarcinoma patients had a similar long history of smoking both of which were greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) . |
| 27 | Severe oesophagitis patients had a similar long history of smoking to adenocarcinoma patients ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) ; again much greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 28 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
| 29 | ‘ Still a helluva long shot . ’ |
| 30 | He had been so butchered by shuriken stars that his corpse was a mere long mound of rashers glued by cinnabar . |