Example sentences of "the [noun sg] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We suggested to the ministry a long time ago that they should find a flock with salmonella and test the eggs for salmonella . |
2 | One of the letters , to Val Hulme of ABC , said : ‘ I have met many innocent men inside this building of darkness , many who gave up the fight a long time ago . |
3 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
4 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
5 | Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally . |
6 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
7 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
8 | She waited on the landing a long time , hating the awful quietness and longing for them to start shouting again so that she would know everything was all right . |
9 | I mean , I know Gerald went first , and I know he 's been in the business a long while , but he actually managed to say it all in about three sentences . |
10 | Jefferson has been in the business a long time and is no fool , is he ? ’ |
11 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |
12 | No one was certain whether or not this would have the desired effect but Party Politics produced a tremendous performance to win the Greenall Chase at Haydock , taking the lead a long way out and running on strongly . |
13 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
14 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
15 | It means they often have to fly the ball a long way in the air with very little run , depending , of course , on where the flag is . |
16 | I usually do this as little as possible so that the children stay in the game a long time . |
17 | ‘ I 've been in the game a long time and you do n't last forever . |
18 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
19 | The recession of the 1870s was shallow , but one that took the economy a long time to climb out of . |
20 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
21 | The Company Commander arrived at the objective a long way last and considerably out of breath . |
22 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
23 | Mr Young looked bored , as if he had tired of the subject a long time ago , but his wife retained her sweet comforting expression without any visible effort . |
24 | We are staying in what was the British part of the city a long time ago , and as you can imagine the ‘ British Imperialists ’ are not very popular here , but everyone is kind to us , and does n't mention such things . |
25 | She was in the hospital a long while . |
26 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
27 | From the base of the flake a long stride left gains a foot ledge . |
28 | Suction could have been provided overnight only when clinically indicated and an assessment tool used to give the patient a longer rest period between interventions . |
29 | The health ministry could have ended the problem a long time ago — it 's one of the biggest scandals in public health at the moment . |
30 | Of course , everyone knows you gave up your place at the helm a long time ago . |