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 —
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