Example sentences of "and a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men and women wear the carapuça , a small dark blue cap , with red trimming and a long stalk in the middle . |
| 2 | Wide side decks and a long run of substantial grabrail on each side of the coachroof allow a secure passage to and from the foredeck . |
| 3 | However , despite constant rain , getting lost around Paris and a long delay on the autobahn due to an accident , 16 hours and 640 miles later we arrived at a motel in Germany . |
| 4 | By contrast , Parkhurst , with long-term high-security prisoners , a badly-sited chapel and a long tradition of low attendance , has between ten and twenty men at the Eucharist . |
| 5 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |
| 6 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 7 | This comprises a char for the letter ( 1 byte ) , a boolean for the continued flag ( 1 byte ) and a long integer for the next edge index ( 4 bytes ) — a total of 6 bytes which is rounded up to the nearest word boundary ( on a Sun Sparc 2 file server ) , hence 8 bytes . |
| 8 | The segmented worms have spherical larvae with a belt of cilia round their middles and a long tuft on top . |
| 9 | The Centre for Human Ecology , with its origins in the late C.H. Waddington 's ‘ School of the Man-Made Future ’ of the 1960s and a long history of promoting environmental awareness within the University , today finds itself at the hub of current ideology . |
| 10 | Where there is a large demand for labour ( or land ) on one side , a population ignorant of conditions in the receiving country on the other and a long distance between , the agent or contractor will flourish . |
| 11 | The bridge across the gjøgv seemed very slender and a long way above the sea surging below , but we made our way safely across and walked out to the end of the hølmur to where we could overlook the gannet colony . |
| 12 | Naturally , I 'm at that mysterious , precarious stage somewhere close to and a long way from that miraculous first sentence . |
| 13 | Frenchay is quiet — and a long way from Bath Road . |
| 14 | The mound was no mound at all , but actually a deer ; a very dead deer , and a long way from fresh . |
| 15 | And a long way after that they think about children . |
| 16 | Consider a portfolio which consists of a short position of one index future , and a long position in the basket of shares corresponding to one index future . |
| 17 | For example the covered call is a combination of a written call and a long position in the underlying security . |
| 18 | It merits consideration , even though there is still keen advocacy for cash flow accounting , and even though there are inevitably additional costs and a long lead-time to production ( probably rather more than the two years in NZ ) as departments switch to accrual accounting . |
| 19 | The west wing , where spacious living quarters should have been sited , consists of a bath-suite , dining room and kitchen , while the north wing has a large bath-suite and a long range of rooms , most of them quite small , all entered from a corridor . |
| 20 | And a long slit in a trapped hare 's belly |
| 21 | Jamila was wearing what looked like several sacks : long skirts , perhaps three , one over the other , and a long smock in faded green beneath which the flat arcs of her braless breasts were visible to the slightly interested . |
| 22 | In Andalusia , General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano occupied Seville on 18 July , while General Enrique Varela took the port of Cadiz and a long stretch of coast eastwards as far as Algeciras , close to Gibraltar . |
| 23 | In the end there was only one way of doing it and that was climbing up there with a match and a long piece of wire . |
| 24 | The spring should be cleaned before inserting it into the pipe and a long piece of string attached to the loop on the bending spring . |
| 25 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 26 | A crop of injuries and a long break from competition militate against England 's Lisa Opie successfully defending the women 's title , for which Susan Devoy , of New Zealand , seven times champion , is the firm favourite . |
| 27 | You had to wear long , elasticated shorts and a long skirt over them . |
| 28 | As well as a facsimile of the Mannerist painter 's diary , it contains three texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn : a commentary , an analysis of his life as seen by Vasari , and a long essay on the Santa Felicitá ‘ Deposition ’ . |
| 29 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 30 | ABL top has a high neck which can be rolled over , and a long zip for ventilation . |