Example sentences of "a [adv] long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 2 | We tend to reckon , perhaps rather arrogantly , that we take a rather longer view of the needs of society , and maybe are as close to getting it right as , as , as , as ministers with their day-by-day short-term preoccupations . |
| 3 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 4 | It was timeless : other contests set a date and trust to luck that nature will co-operate — the Triple Crown was already distinct in having a much longer window of opportunity than fixtures elsewhere on the Tour . |
| 5 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 6 | It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time . |
| 7 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 8 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 9 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 10 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 11 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 12 | On the next cast I touch-leger again , only with a fairly long loop of line pulled out from between butt-ring and reel ( see pages 15–17 ) . |
| 13 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 16 | there 's there 's and we just , what he must of had and he skidded and there was a blooming long track of mud down the carpet you know ! |
| 17 | ‘ The Home Secretary was n't persuaded then and there has n't been a particularly long period of time since , so it is not likely that there will be any review . ’ |
| 18 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 19 | After all , Germany does have a disturbingly long tradition of attempts to expand and dominate militarily the European continent . |
| 20 | All subject groups had DGR for some of the study period ; however , both groups of patients had reflux for a significantly longer proportion of study time than the normal controls ( 12% of study time for normal controls , 67% for gastric ulcer patients , and 91% for gastric surgery patients ; p<0.001 gastric ulcer v controls and p<0.0002 gastric surgery v controls ; Fig 1 ) . |
| 21 | No because that 's , we 've got a video going in now at nine o'clock , er , a very long pair of wires erm so what do I need here ? |
| 22 | She 's ninety-three now , so she has a , a very long memory of , of political causes . |
| 23 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 24 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 25 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 26 | Many in the Labour movement were prepared to admit that without a strong combination forcing the National Government out of office " we may not get a chance for a very long time of putting into effect our ultimate aims " . |
| 27 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 28 | There was a very long gap of years between the mass petitioning of 1792 and that of 1823–4 with the single exception of the 1814 campaign against the reopening of the French slave trade after the war . |
| 29 | It 's definitely a possession of other people , I have a very long list of things I want to do . ’ |
| 30 | There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication . |