Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 2 | The report proved that she had known him very well indeed , and for a very long time . |
| 3 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 4 | Clearly this is consistent both with a period of about a day and with a very long period . |
| 5 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |
| 6 | Skil also offers the same bodied model , but with a slightly longer cutting edge of 550mm , the 523H . |
| 7 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 8 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |