Example sentences of "all [noun] long [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All day long a team of labourers , pale with cement dust , streamed up a plank out of the hold with the bags of cement , like a trail of ants .
2 ALL day long the midnight sky built its bastions of cloud over Fenwick and the south .
3 Once up in the front line , troops found that life had been reduced , in the words of a Beaux Arts professor serving with the Territorials , ‘ to a struggle between the artillerymen and the navvy , between the cannon and the mound of earth ’ All day long the enemy guns worked at levelling the holes laboriously scraped out the previous night .
4 All night long the thought of his being hand in glove with Harry Martin had lingered at the back of her mind .
5 Then we got our fears confirmed that there was a heavy sea on ; all night long the wind had howled round my room .
6 All week long the behaviour of the crowd had been impeccable .
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