Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process . |
| 2 | Thus suppose we have two existing species , and would like to know how long ago their ancestral lineage split into two . |
| 3 | You need to know how long any warning will last . |
| 4 | Part of the art of film making is to know how long to allow for the length of each shot . |
| 5 | You do n't have to record people 's brainwaves in order to know how long they sleep . |
| 6 | She had an embarrassed recollection of having burst into tears , of demanding to know how long the affair with Henrietta had been going on . |
| 7 | Teachers and librarians need to know how long it will take for the teacher or librarian and pupils to learn how to use the program . |
| 8 | In effect , it will try to guess how long you will be out of work . |
| 9 | Wall Street is starting to wonder how long the Federal Reserve can continue to ignore such evidence of rising inflation , despite pressure from the White House to lower interest rates . |
| 10 | ‘ Er — he 's out playing golf , ’ her mother replied , and , while Leith was beginning to wonder how long it would be before her father discovered that his joint savings account with his wife had a dent in it , her mother was swiftly changing the subject . |
| 11 | Its almost immediate closure was announced and then retracted last autumn , and its 600 or so employees are now waiting to hear how long the reprieve will last . |
| 12 | In that case , it is difficult to predict how long it would take to be finally approved . |
| 13 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 14 | The problem is that it is often difficult to determine how long an individual has been drinking . |
| 15 | The recovery of later fourth-century coins and pottery in the town centre itself certainly also attests continued activity , but it is hard to determine how long this survived into the fifth century , given the cessation of both coinage and pottery supplies and the consequent problem of dating post-Roman levels . |
| 16 | It is n't difficult to calculate how long we should reasonably expect to wait for the random computer ( or baby or monkey ) to type METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL . |
| 17 | It is impossible in these Coronation days to judge how long it will take to get from place to place and I asked the taxi-driver not to be too early . |
| 18 | LIFESPAN RDBI provides a facility to control how long the above data transfer process is allowed to run ( re . |
| 19 | One needs a calculation like table 5.2 to assess how long the delay in the next technological leap needs to be to make one 's cost-leadership policy worthwhile . |
| 20 | Where there is no attendance note but it is nevertheless clear that the particular task had been done , then the taxing officer will have to assess how long the particular job is likely to have taken . |
| 21 | It is very much up to individual groups to decide how long they want to go out , where they want to go and what they want to do , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 22 | Watch to see how long the shade persists ; if sunlight reaches the area for at least half the day , plants listed as tolerating partial shade will thrive there . |
| 23 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 24 | A useful exercise to practise the rig steering combined with weight on the rails is to see how long you can maintain the freestyle trick of tail sinking . |
| 25 | Once he looked at his watch to see how long it would be before he was relieved . |
| 26 | Rescrawling Tommy Titmouse on her list I was interested to see how long it had grown , and I noticed that even Mercer had n't been let in without signing . |
| 27 | Now break it up as it is cut along the dotted lines and the object is to see how long it takes for it to be reassembled . |
| 28 | Harry would often call his son in New York to tell him how much money the film was making in various cities , while Lillian phoned local LA cinemas to see how long the ticket queues were . |
| 29 | I wait to see how long you can control your imbecile temptation to violate my copyrights on this letter and once again untruthfully take words and phrases from it to show your ‘ powers ’ to match those boasted by your kind in the NF and the BNP , whose performances are different from yours only in that instead of using your limbs to physically assault us like they would , you have acted by wearing the ‘ civilised ’ guise of being the ‘ editor ’ of the ‘ left ’ NewSS , and have written to assail my integrity , my capacity to think , my freedom to defend and speak for my constitutionally organised members at the Stratford school . |
| 30 | All that remains is to see how long the honeymoon lasts . |