Example sentences of "and [prep] long a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote articles for the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , of which he was a founder , and for long a member of council . |
| 2 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |
| 3 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 4 | Then by lunchtime a line of waxy , yellow-white clouds was spotted abaft by the starboard lookout , and before long a breath of hot and humid air was wafting over a ship which , in a matter of moments — since its metal was still so cold — was dripping with condensation . |
| 5 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |