Example sentences of "[noun] that long " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he 'd left London his face had had the pinched , strained look , the hollow eyes that long illness seem to give . |
| 2 | THE IAAF have sidelined a recommendation that long distance road races , including the marathon , should be added to the list of events at which official world records are ratified . |
| 3 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 4 | Flow cytometry of archival tumour material offers the advantage that long term follow up is available . |
| 5 | Thus , this study , which shows that asthmatics dependent on chronic bronchodilator therapy have a prevalence of oesophagitis similar to asthmatics who are not dependent on this , supports the conclusion that long standing use of bronchodilators does not adversely affect the oesophageal mucosa in asthmatics . |
| 6 | British pubs and clubs usually face great difficulty securing a late licence on anything approaching a regular basis because of fears that longer hours will mean increased drunken mayhem . |
| 7 | Evidence that long tails impose viability costs is very limited , yet without this it remains possible that tail elongation has sometimes been driven by natural selection , perhaps because it improves aerodynamic efficiency , manoeuvrability or stability . |
| 8 | There is no good evidence that long courses of treatment for acute pyelonephritis are indicated . |
| 9 | As yet , we do not have the evidence that long term abstinence improves splenic function . |
| 10 | Whereas intervals of three to four years between births have the greatest health benefits , as noted earlier , there is some evidence that longer intervals of , say , five or more years do not carry these benefits and , in fact , may have a deleterious effect ( see Table 9 ) . |
| 11 | For him , the main issue was job security , to be sustained by keeping pits open and working hours restrained ( the latter policy being advanced on the argument that longer working hours and working weeks threatened safety standards ) . |
| 12 | It was also in the closing weeks of the year that long explorations of the Somerset landscape by Coleridge and the Wordsworths began to have far reaching creative consequences . |
| 13 | Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible . |
| 14 | He always brought two , ancient black leather bags that had seen long service , into which he packed with great method all the gloves , tweezers , thermometers and rulers that long usage had shown him he needed . |
| 15 | Long division 's pretty boring ; I think what I would like every child to know is the fact that long division is just repeated subtraction and all the methods long division do is to formalize that repeated subtracted . |