Example sentences of "long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment . |
| 2 | Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest . |
| 3 | You take the longest bit of candle , but be quick . ’ |
| 4 | To give some idea of just how long Tom Weiskopf could hit a ball — and he was the longest driver of his time — Tommy Horton , who was playing with us , needed a driver and 4-iron at the 17th . |
| 5 | The bibliographical survey is the longest part of the whole process , and a readily available and up-to-date bibliography can save a good deal of staff time . |
| 6 | The longest part of the conditions was the schedule of requirements for the three parts of the competition : under ‘ Design , No. 1 . , |
| 7 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 8 | The M-Forty is the longest stretch of road in Britain with no services . |
| 9 | The Diplodocus had the longest neck of all the dinosaurs . |
| 10 | For example , in A the longest side of the shelf measures 6m , the shortest sides ( from front to back ) 2m . |
| 11 | All that celebratory burning of good kindling at the onset of the darkest and longest months of the year must assuage some deep primitive need . |
| 12 | The Dictionary of National Biography concurs with Jowett and gives Smith the longest entry of any pure mathematician . |
| 13 | By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages . |
| 14 | The poorest people experience the longest periods of being out of work . |
| 15 | A prices and incomes accord , negotiated in 1983 , had ( with several revisions ) covered the whole of the Hawke government 's period in office and was credited by its advocates with having created 300,000 jobs , reduced real unit labour costs and underpinned one of the longest periods of industrial harmony in the country 's history . |
| 16 | Verdun was the longest battle of World War I , among the most costly in life and militarily the most pointless . |
| 17 | Between Haweswater and the rest of the Lake District lies the longest range of hills in the Lake District above 2,000ft . |
| 18 | At 700,000 words , it is also the longest work of fiction of this or any other season . |
| 19 | Consisting of about 700,000 words , A Suitable Boy is the longest work of fiction published in English this century . |
| 20 | A series of strikes in late 1989 and early 1990 , the longest bout of industrial unrest since independence , led to significant changes in industrial relations procedures . |
| 21 | In London and Liverpool on Friday the final details of the events to be held in May to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic , the longest campaign of the Second World War , will be revealed . |
| 22 | Marking the longest campaign of the Second World War , it starts with a review of the Fleet on 26 May , followed by five days of festivity , including a march by more than 2,000 veterans through Liverpool . |
| 23 | This he had learnt from Ann herself , who had forecast the sex of both babies by means of a golden ring suspended by the longest whisker of a white cat . |
| 24 | Times change ; the magic of those last lingering minutes of twilight on one of the longest days of the year , still remains . |
| 25 | The foundations of the White Tower of Hoeth are laid down and the longest period of continual peace in Elf history begins . |
| 26 | Above all , he established a rapport between himself and the leading noblemen , his companions in arms , which formed the basis of the longest period of political stability the country had known since the early years of Edward I. These achievements , however , had their price . |
| 27 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
| 28 | And , again , the monkeys , like ourselves , are still more lizards than anything else ; for , as Carl Sagan points out , by far the longest period of our air-breathing history was spent evolving through the Age of Reptiles . |
| 29 | Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time . |
| 30 | The longest period of Venetian ascendancy lasted from 1204 to 1358 , during which time there was constant friction because of the restriction placed on Ragusa 's maritime trade by its great rival . |