Example sentences of "long [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These visits are generally about one week long which gives the employee and spouse a reasonable length of time to find accommodation and get a feel for the country . |
| 2 | The longer someone smokes the more dangerous it becomes ; the good news is that the risk begins to fall as soon as you stop smoking . |
| 3 | This is something which many flyers find to be extremely difficult and here , as before , the longer you delay the potentially more difficult it becomes . |
| 4 | But , the longer you stay the more wages you get . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's old , ’ said Mrs Munro , and I wondered whether she was thinking of herself : that old age bred inanition , that the longer one lived the less one cared for one 's fellows . |
| 6 | The longer one survived the more unreal it was . |
| 7 | It ca n't come soon enough for the homeless on the street , They feel the longer they wait the more they 'll be forced to beg on the streets , and even turn to crime . |
| 8 | At the same time you 've got to try when there 's a break in the in the shouting to explain that the longer they shout the c more it 's gon na cost if you actually do do the removal , |
| 9 | They desire to keep perfectly still ; the more and the longer they move the more they suffer . |
| 10 | It became a desperate struggle to get them on ; the longer it took the more difficult it became as my fingers became numb and useless . |