Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retiro Station offered Paul Theroux a comfortable sense of home-coming after a long rail journey through the continent . |
| 2 | Cognitive–Behavioural treatments have been the most extensively evaluated interventions of all the psychotherapeutic schools in relation to these disorders and they do indicate that clients benefit in the short term , but little is known about the maintenance of change in the long term . |
| 3 | The fall in death rates was the most fundamental feature of change in the longer term . |
| 4 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 5 | Yet climbers appear willing to put an inordinate amount of faith in a long line of brass nuts and then show surprise when they pull like a hot knife through butter . |
| 6 | Many couples continue to enjoy sexual intercourse once or twice a week into old age , but some people have neither the inclination or ability for this , and of course in a long relationship we do adjust to our partner 's needs . |
| 7 | He would hardly have been a natural companion for the Prime Minister , Mrs Baldwin and Tom Jones during a quiet evening of patience in the Long Gallery at Chequers . |
| 8 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 9 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
| 10 | This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run . |
| 11 | It belonged to an extremely important erm civic family , Thomas and John Smith , who are the two important ones during the civil war , Thomas was mayor just before the War , John Smith was a member of parliament in the Long Parliament , and erm there 's a slightly complicated story to the house , Thomas moved out of it just before the war and built another one way up the street , but John stayed there , and another important landowner in Marston , Umpton Croak , owned the other half of it . |
| 12 | Although out of action for a long time , an internal iron water wheel survives . |
| 13 | But after being knocked out in the first round of the English Derby the dog injured a hind muscle and was out of action for a long time . |
| 14 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 15 | I 've been in this frame of mind for a long time , but no one seems to notice . ’ |
| 16 | A net outflow from the UK until the 1931 Census was followed by a period of net inward migration which culminated in the early 1960s in the peak arrivals of migrants from the ‘ new Commonwealth ’ , chiefly the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent , reflecting a UK shortage of labour in the long ‘ post-war boom ’ . |
| 17 | Ryan 's proposal for a program for automatic story generation which fulfils her three criteria of creativity , aesthetic awareness and understanding will probably remain beyond the boundaries of feasibility for a long time , but it does demonstrate both the need for a greater contribution of ideas from poetics and narratology to developments in artificial intelligence , and the insights that can be gained from the attempt to shape one 's ideas about narrative into a form that can be learnt and applied by computers . |
| 18 | If you have not kept up with the nursing journals or have been out of practice for a long time then you will have to trust to luck or the recommendations of others as to the relevance and value of any course you choose to attend . |
| 19 | There should therefore be fairly high levels of mobility in the long run and a more open system of elite mobility than in capitalist society . |
| 20 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 21 | Ironically she felt a tiny pang of regret for the long Viking locks , though she could n't have said why . |
| 22 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 23 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 24 | I 've gone down hill since then , but she said you know these folks are hard when you 've been out of work for a long while , you 've got ta just get back up and fight again , I said , she said and I know how hard that is , but she said you know , if you can get it going and fit and get in , so |
| 25 | The slope eased , and I came over what had seemed from below like a ridge , but in fact was merely the folding of ice from a long saddle that ran like a narrow valley between west and east summits . |
| 26 | Now there are two-carriage abominations called ‘ Sprinters ’ that are so basic and degrading a form of transport for a long journey that adequate toilet facilities are considered an unnecessary luxury . |
| 27 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |
| 28 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 29 | However , carers with savings above the limit for means-tested benefits have to rely entirely on ICA plus income from their savings , a strategy which is likely to increase their risk of poverty in the longer term ( Glendinning , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | Will he do all he can , through the Construction Industry Training Board , to ensure that an adequate supply of skill is available to meet the demands of recovery in the longer term ? |