Example sentences of "[prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roaring is extremely exhausting for the animals and the one that can keep it up for longest is also likely to be the strongest . |
| 2 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 3 | They were not silent but only spoke after long intervals and what they said did not carry to the upstairs rooms . |
| 4 | After long years of living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation , it now looked as if Jack and Minto could afford a place of their own . |
| 5 | Asked what he hoped for Soviet art and culture after long years of political oppression , he said there would be an enormous spiritual benefit , not least because of easier travel and contacts with the rest of the world . |
| 6 | A key feature of the Intifada is that , after long years of trans-frontier or inter-state conflict between largely faceless enemies , it brought the conflict back to where it essentially belongs , to Palestine itself . |
| 7 | After long days and nights alone I would wake in the mornings wondering if this new day would bring a new poem from you , a new smile as you ran dancing towards me on your boxer 's turned-in toes . |
| 8 | After long exposure to the air or burial in the ground most materials corrode . |
| 9 | After long and careful preparation , he went on , his orchestra was able to play music with full knowledge and without fear of error . |
| 10 | But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism . |
| 11 | The regard was held again after long discontinuance : presentments were enrolled , as in medieval times , for production at the Forest Eyre . |
| 12 | After long debate in Parliament , the condition was accepted and the collections were moved to Montague House to become the nucleus of the British Museum . |
| 13 | They should improve the use of inverted commas and apostrophes and should learn some of the simple uses of the comma , eg in lists , after long adverbials . |
| 14 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 15 | In some climates , outdoor workers have to be trained to take protective measures against exposure to long periods of sunlight leading to dehydration because of perspiration loss ; or to heat stroke ; or after long exposure , to an increasing rise in the incidence of skin cancer ( Nichols , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 17 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 18 | Love is subtle and grows in the heart only slowly and after long and painstaking work . |
| 19 | They had continued to write , frequently at first , then more and more seldom , and only once more had he heard from him , by chance , after long years : married , a father , in a high judicial position . |
| 20 | Frequent leave was recommended ‘ in order to regain sanity of outlook after long periods of loneliness ’ , and it was later added that : ‘ Intellectual geniuses are not required , nor anyone with ‘ nerves ’ or who is likely to become ‘ Masai-astic ’ … i.e. regard themselves as specialists ' . |
| 21 | His ultimate conversion , after long and courteous discussions which added cubits to Gandhi 's stature , provided a timely justification of the latter 's claim to leadership . |
| 22 | A number of borough councils agreed to appoint workers with specific lesbian and gay responsibilities and , after long periods of consultation , Camden and Haringey agreed to set up their own lesbian and gay units . |
| 23 | The other ( the Thorntons ) restored to life after long absence , consists only of Charles ( widower of Kate 's best friend ) and his daughter , Araminta . |
| 24 | And Gooch had agreed to tour India this winter only after long discussions at home . |
| 25 | After long talks with WBC president Jose Sulaiman , Maloney is confident that approval will be given for Lewis to fight the Hammersmith-born Jamaican Alex Stewart in the first defence of his title . |
| 26 | After long consideration , he had decided that he would try to write a book so outrageous that the Presbyterian élite of Tollemarche would ostracize the whole Stych family and thus put an end to his mother 's inane social life . |
| 27 | After long use of permanent hair colourants , which penetrate the hair shaft , hair may be porous , broken and dull . |
| 28 | And Colt , after long days of torture , had recognised in the Colonel someone he could like , someone whose trust he would value . |
| 29 | That cabal had created the hydra after long research in covert theological laboratories located on the frozen fringe of some barren solar system unclaimed by either the Imperium or by aliens . |
| 30 | This was particularly true for those small communities , small towns , or groups of peasants , who had won their privileges after long struggles against a higher authority . |