Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [art] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ IBM needs to make something happen with OS/2 2.1 , or it 's facing the possibility of being a niche product for a very long time . ’ |
| 2 | Hilda Lodge ( Kent ) has hung up her teaching cap , but will continue to wear her Executive and Publicity Committee hats for a very long time to come , we hope . |
| 3 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 4 | Most importantly , the folded state of the subunit is stabilized by extensive van der Waals interactions and hydrogen bonds between the unusually long helices of R2 . |
| 5 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 6 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 7 | Certain ancient stains along the approach corridor — which resembled the rib cage of a very long whale — had suggested that those ribs could clash shut at any sign of unwelcome visitors , imprisoning or crushing intruders . |
| 8 | A brine crock is great for storing runner beans for a really long time . |
| 9 | We have been a nation state for a very long time . |
| 10 | Warming occurs so slowly that the descending lithosphere retains its high density characteristics for a very long time . |
| 11 | This will generate capital for further developments and we can almost guarantee market dominance for a very long time . ’ |