Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daily total caloric requirements were calculated from Long 's equation modified for ideal body weight . |
| 2 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 3 | Our days were filled with long interviews with the architect , the plumber , the electrician and the foreman builder . |
| 4 | A couple of times we were attacked by long range German ‘ planes but fortunately on these occasions , they missed us . |
| 5 | But the apples were wrinkled from long storage , and the meat had been salted to preserve it . |
| 6 | In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 7 | The managers of the company were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in October . |
| 8 | Scaling forks were made with long shafts and prominent hooks to dislodge defenders from walls . |
| 9 | They were wrapped in long , midnight-blue capes that disguised most of their shapes , but their uncovered faces were strikingly handsome . |
| 10 | There were few windows on the exterior , their roofs were supplied with long walkways protected by thick parapets , and high look-out towers flanked the entrance and main concourse . |
| 11 | And he admits : ‘ It is not normal for the Spanish people to leave the place where you were born for long spells . |
| 12 | They were mounted on long wheelbase trucks fitted with Lycett & Conaty radial gear in which the axles pivoted about the motors and there were no motor support springs , but there were very large protruding axle-boxes . |
| 13 | It was a more profound unpredictability , in spite of the fact that probably a good proportion of workers were employed for long periods of their lives by a single employer . |
| 14 | It has been alleged by the director of a management investigation company that telephones in Transport House , then the headquarters of the Labour Party and still the headquarters of the TGWU , were tapped for long periods during 1972 , a time of union opposition to the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 15 | The other 20 men and 10 women started antihypertensive medication at mean ages of 35.5 and 40.8 years respectively ; many patients were observed for long periods before starting medication , especially in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | These contraction sequences were associated with long periods of increased baseline pressure in the distal oesophagus . |
| 17 | No market research informed Laura that women were thirsting for long dresses which they could not find . |
| 18 | We went into a room where all these children were sitting at long rows of tables . |
| 19 | They were dressed in long dark raincoats and wore dark felt hats and they addressed themselves to my father , ignoring the rest of us . |
| 20 | This situation is different from the condition in which the present studies were performed and in which pressures were recorded over long periods , with the patient not being asked to take swallows . |
| 21 | All were controlled for long periods with endoscopic treatment altough it is possible that obstruction contributed to death in one patient . |
| 22 | During the decade new Mark 3 pattern sleeping cars were evolved at long last to replace the Mark ls . |
| 23 | The model queens of the magazine covers , Suzy Parker in America and Barbara Goalen in England , were ladies who were photographed in long gloves . |