Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There were other reasons for the long use of the sickle .
2 Then she ran her fingers through the long strands of her hair , getting rid of the worst of the tangles and flicking it back from her face .
3 There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together .
4 With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority .
5 While the inherited allele is mutated , the normal allele is subsequently deleted in a somatic , mitotic event involving variable sized fragments of the long arm of chromosome 5 .
6 Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment .
7 Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy .
8 Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics .
9 One way to reduce mobility is to offer promises of long-term employment , with the prospect of wage increases rising by promotion steps on a long ladder of continuous employment .
10 It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor .
11 Nonetheless , he condemned that same deluded world for its previous exclusion of Spain from the European Recovery Programme , thereby exacerbating the effects of a long period of exceptionally low rainfall .
12 At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor .
13 Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England .
14 The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene .
15 Meanwhile , as discussed in section 5.2.1 , the eurobond market 's development in London can be attributed to prior development of the eurocurrency market , London 's overall infrastructure as a financial centre , the innovative merchant banks with a long tradition of intermediating financial flows , and the comparatively relaxed regulatory and fiscal regime .
16 Even parts of series , e.g. Sir William Jardine 's Natural History of Humming Birds , in two small volumes from the long series of The Naturalists ' Library in forty volumes , can fetch £100 or over .
17 I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay .
18 What really moved the men was the ignition of the class war , the excitement of climbing out of the trenches for the long march against the class enemy .
19 The people began to recover from the horrors of the long war with Chaos and for a while the population grew .
20 They are intimately connected with breaks in the long profile of the streams .
21 Pantaleone , one of four eighteenth-century commedia dell-arte figures in the Long Garden at Cliveden
22 Certainly , he can enjoy the outcome for a day or two , but there is still a question mark over dealings in the longer term on the all-important economy , with the rivalry between the trading blocs dictating how ‘ special ’ the ‘ relationship ’ is likely to remain .
23 In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League .
24 In these respects , there has been a general and continuing decline in prison conditions over a long period of time ( King and McDermott , 1999 ) .
25 These were the patients with non-acute surgical conditions on the long waiting-list for non-acute — i.e .
26 My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success .
27 My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success .
28 The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust .
29 This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time .
30 Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories .
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