Example sentences of "a [noun sg] long [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a bit long in the legs for it so he sometimes knocked his knees painfully . |
| 2 | If I may say so , you 're a bit long in the tooth to be an articled clerk , and — to make up for that — you have an air of authority that scarcely fits you for a junior position . |
| 3 | Your printer is a bit long in the tooth but , as you say , treated as an FX80 it works well with other Windows applications . |
| 4 | it 's a bit long in the tooth that one . |
| 5 | ‘ I got a list of things a mile long fer the drapers . ’ |
| 6 | A rectangular placenta and a baby about half an inch long with a heart but no face are implanted with the aid of forceps and speculum . |