Example sentences of "a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 2 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |
| 3 | There followed a rather long and embarrassing silence . |
| 4 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 5 | Ilse was a slim attractive country girl of eighteen , with bobbed black hair and a rather long nose . |
| 6 | The leaps of the first phrase , with their chordal implications ; change into a falling scale pattern , while the impulsive , staccato dotted rhythm changes to a series of contrastingly smooth legato quaver runs , quite different in character : In the March from Aida ( Example 25 ) , after a rather long first phrase of three bars , there is a complete change to material which has never been used before . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall ask your indulgence of a rather long exposition , Mr Chairman . |
| 8 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 9 | But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom . |
| 10 | On the 14th and 15th July 1986 , a rather longer boundary walk took place in Spaunton when the new lord of the manor , Mr G Winn-Darley , walked the twenty-seven mile boundary of his estate . |
| 11 | The victory did not , however , mean the immediate defeat of England ; that was to be a rather longer process . |
| 12 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 13 | A rather longer silence this time , and then one of the group says hesitantly , " We milk them . " |
| 14 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 15 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 16 | We tend to reckon , perhaps rather arrogantly , that we take a rather longer view of the needs of society , and maybe are as close to getting it right as , as , as , as ministers with their day-by-day short-term preoccupations . |
| 17 | The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade . |
| 18 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 19 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 20 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 21 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 23 | The conductor does Beethoven no favours and the ballet is a little long but is worth seeing ) , Requiem tonight , 27 Oct ( when Sylvie Guillem dances Grand Pas Classique with Cope ) ; La Bayadere Fri ( Guillem , Bussell , Cope 13 Oct ) ; Postal booking : Prince of the Pagodas. 7 Dec ( Gala ) , 8 , 11 , 14 , 15 , 19 , 20 Dec. 65 amphitheatre seats are sold from 10am on the day . |
| 24 | There were a few of the I-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags sort of lines , which all went on a little long for Henry 's taste , and quite a number of death-as-a-viable-alternative-to-life stuff , much of it from the fathers of the early church . |
| 25 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 26 | He wondered whether , before ordination , he should stay at Cambridge a little longer to do more advanced work . |
| 27 | His reddish-blond hair , slightly faded , evidently not clipped , was a little longer but still close to his head , already curling , giving him perhaps the youthful or angelic look of persons in Italian Renaissance paintings . |
| 28 | It may take me a little longer but … ’ he smiled , and his confidence made her dislike him more than ever , ‘ I promise you I shall get there in the end . ’ |
| 29 | It look a little longer to plan how she was to make the journey to Chertsey , which she had discovered was about twenty miles away . |
| 30 | It takes a little longer but is time well spent , DO N'T JUMP IN YOURSELF WITH THE REPLY . |