Example sentences of "[adv] long as [indef pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 2 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 3 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 4 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 5 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 6 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 7 | For as long as anyone could remember the council had been overwhelmingly Labour , and all the MPs came from the ranks of the party . |
| 8 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |