Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 2 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 3 | She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away . |
| 4 | First , the very fact that this standard of review is so limited means that it will only serve as a long stop to catch extreme examples of aberrant administrative behaviour . |
| 5 | Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life . |
| 6 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 7 | The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain . |
| 8 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 9 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
| 10 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 11 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 12 | Lions are strong but can not run for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 14 | A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it . |
| 15 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 16 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 17 | One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time . |
| 18 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 19 | These , he says , were not overcome without a long struggle . |
| 20 | Bill was given a cheque with best wishes for a long and happy retirement , from all his friends in Scottish Amicable . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , but just think of a long soak in a hot bath and a large soft bed to sleep on . |
| 22 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 23 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 24 | Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period . |
| 25 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 26 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 27 | The major disadvantage of this form of dictatorial power balance occurs with the death of the chief ; which is usually followed by a long , painful period of restructuring whereby the balance is restored . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the army , despite the FMLN 's truce offer of Sept. 14 , was still engaged in a long push against guerrilla strongholds , and a major FMLN counter-offensive was not ruled out . |
| 29 | Alternatively , try to find the sort of rectangular table that can also double as a long desk or work table when required . |
| 30 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |