Example sentences of "there [was/were] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a long way from . |
| 2 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 3 | Then there was a long drive to get to the house . |
| 4 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 5 | There was a long elm table , an old chestnut French provincial armoire , a rather well-worn 17th century velvet-covered Spanish chest and thick white cotton Roman blinds , edged with a brown and apricot cotton to match the tablecloth . |
| 6 | It argued that there was a long history of use of such powers ; that , with the widening of the sphere of government , the use of delegated legislative powers was necessary for the efficient conduct of business in the modern state ; that the civil service was best placed to provide the expertise which was necessary to make effective use of these powers ; and that the way in which the powers were actually used in practice was such as to refute any claim of a ‘ new despotism ’ . |
| 7 | Where there was a long history of nationalist resistance , notably in Poland , Russification provoked bitter resentment . |
| 8 | In addition to the Erzerum and earlier treaties , there was a long history of tension in the region . |
| 9 | However there was a long delay in sending out a rescue launch as the raid was still on , and he was dead when eventually picked up ; Waghorn was also killed . |
| 10 | At first I spent so long feeling for the ground the engines had run down to idle , and there was a long delay before they wound back up again to produce noticeable acceleration . |
| 11 | There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school . |
| 12 | ’ There was a long sigh and then a sobbing , and so desolate and so hopeless was the sound that the three listening minds were splintered with anguish . |
| 13 | Then there was a long drought which produced a very poor harvest . |
| 14 | Then there was a long watt . |
| 15 | There was a long haul ahead . |
| 16 | Suddenly there was a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 17 | There was a long tradition of regarding trusts as protected by actions in personam ; and it is not likely that jurists were early ( or even late ) prepared to abandon this and make available a real protection in all circumstances . |
| 18 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
| 19 | Factory girls usually married in their early twenties ; it was unlikely to happen over the age of 25 , and only in textile areas , where there was a long tradition of employment , did women generally prolong their independence , though conditions varied in different industries and areas . |
| 20 | In cotton textile workers ' families , where there was a long tradition of married women 's work , one night a week was usually set aside by husbands and wives as ‘ Mary-Ann night ’ . |
| 21 | There was a long pause and then a smile : ‘ I assume I did . ’ |
| 22 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 23 | ‘ There was a long pause and Dr Runcie said : ‘ Well , I always suspected it was he who had written it , but I never thought there was anything personal in it . |
| 24 | There was a long pause . |
| 25 | There was a long pause . |
| 26 | There was a long pause . |
| 27 | There was a long pause . |
| 28 | There was a long pause . |
| 29 | There was a long pause before Jim spoke again . |
| 30 | There was a long pause from my point of view , while the lights began flickering in the office and the train exceedingly slowly reversed , before stopping again and going into a sudden jerk . |