Example sentences of "the beginning [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arriving with Prince William in Alice Springs , Australia , at the beginning of a long tour in 1983 |
| 2 | This was the beginning of a long conflict between Conservative Lords and Liberal Commons which lasted until 1911 . |
| 3 | It was the beginning of a long night , and by morning all four of them were sleeping soundly . |
| 4 | 1 So what do you think happened ? 2 This passage comes from the beginning of a long story . |
| 5 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 6 | He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship . |
| 7 | In either case the initial statement is merely the beginning of a long road . |
| 8 | I and my right hon. Friend would be the first to admit that the White Paper process is the beginning of a long road . |
| 9 | His paper of January 1856 turned out to be only the beginning of a long argument about the need to abolish serfdom in order to put the Russian army on a sounder footing . |