Example sentences of "small [noun] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 2 | Small girls in long flowing flamenco dresses careered around excitedly , swirling their skirts in a parody of the fiery flamenco dances they were too young to fully understand . |
| 3 | It was a small man in long , black robes who turned Bishop 's life around . |
| 4 | Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts . |
| 5 | Trevor Magee had passed the small entryway to Long 's Court when he noticed it . |
| 6 | Two wings of the latter were each divided into small apartments with long , narrow , heated rooms on the east side , the layout of which suggests the existence of internal timber partitions , with the large room on the west side ( No. 20 ) apparently remaining a kitchen . |
| 7 | So we decided on a special release pattern — an opening in New York a couple of months before any place else , play-off in small theatres with long engagements , letting word of mouth build an audience . ’ |