Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people . |
| 2 | Allon , who only passed a fitness test an hour before the kick-off , was on hand to lob home a long clearance from defender Jamie Bates to record his fourth goal in five games since his record £275,000 signing from Chelsea last month . |
| 3 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 4 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 5 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 6 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 7 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
| 8 | Except , Gedanken noticed , those who had to travel quite a long way . |