Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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1 | For a mercury crisis is not an immediate or indeed a long term worry . |
2 | The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too . |
3 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
4 | There was an inscription on the stone , and I paused to read it : ‘ Sacred to the memory of John Wetherby Wilson of this Parish ’ , then the date of his birth , and of his death , and then a long empty blank . |
5 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
6 | He put one hand out , feeling for a table ; he found what felt like one , and then a long cold metal stem . |
7 | The thunder started as she reached the gate , a great crash and then a long roll of drums . |
8 | The Russian soldier was just ahead of me. from the road came the sounds of men shouting and then a long burst of machine-gun fire . |
9 | ‘ I 've had a very good life and quite a long one . |
10 | Here we were sorted our into groups according to the types of honours and quite a long wait ensued . |
11 | ‘ The journey to the hacienda is difficult by car and quite a long way . |
12 | But still a long way to go . |
13 | They were now running alongside the wall , but still a long way from the crossing stile . |
14 | not only that , but also a long sheath — |