Example sentences of "a [adv] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall ask your indulgence of a rather long exposition , Mr Chairman . |
| 3 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 4 | Ilse was a slim attractive country girl of eighteen , with bobbed black hair and a rather long nose . |
| 5 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 6 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 7 | On the 14th and 15th July 1986 , a rather longer boundary walk took place in Spaunton when the new lord of the manor , Mr G Winn-Darley , walked the twenty-seven mile boundary of his estate . |
| 8 | But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom . |
| 9 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 10 | A rather longer silence this time , and then one of the group says hesitantly , " We milk them . " |
| 11 | The victory did not , however , mean the immediate defeat of England ; that was to be a rather longer process . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 17 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 18 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 20 | It is much cheaper to spend a little longer thinking about them beforehand and getting them right the first time rather than the second , third or fourth time around . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 22 | A teaspoon of domestic antiseptic , like Savlon , in their water will give them a much longer life . |
| 23 | And if treated correctly it has a much longer life than synthetics . |
| 24 | Mr stresses that there is in this case , a much longer life expectancy than in Abbel , namely fifty five compared to forty two . |
| 25 | This must have been a most amazing sight , coming as it did as the climax of a much longer event staged beforehand outside Wanstead House itself . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Three of her rivals are well out of the handicap ; Celtic Bob will not be improving at 13 ; and Petty Bridge needs a much longer trip . |
| 28 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
| 29 | When compared to bradykinin , the PDGF-induced formation of InsP 3 was much slower , and the resulting calcium response was not only smaller but had a much longer latency . |
| 30 | Sociology is a relatively new discipline or subject , although the issues examined by sociologists and the explanations put forward have a much longer history . |