Example sentences of "a [adv] long [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed a rather long and embarrassing silence . |
| 2 | The conductor does Beethoven no favours and the ballet is a little long but is worth seeing ) , Requiem tonight , 27 Oct ( when Sylvie Guillem dances Grand Pas Classique with Cope ) ; La Bayadere Fri ( Guillem , Bussell , Cope 13 Oct ) ; Postal booking : Prince of the Pagodas. 7 Dec ( Gala ) , 8 , 11 , 14 , 15 , 19 , 20 Dec. 65 amphitheatre seats are sold from 10am on the day . |
| 3 | His reddish-blond hair , slightly faded , evidently not clipped , was a little longer but still close to his head , already curling , giving him perhaps the youthful or angelic look of persons in Italian Renaissance paintings . |
| 4 | It may take me a little longer but … ’ he smiled , and his confidence made her dislike him more than ever , ‘ I promise you I shall get there in the end . ’ |
| 5 | It takes a little longer but is time well spent , DO N'T JUMP IN YOURSELF WITH THE REPLY . |
| 6 | About this time a particularly long and deep depression hit the British economy , giving further impetus to the need to reappraise social and economic policy . |
| 7 | Families where there is both a record of schizophrenia and where the index child was born after a particularly long or difficult labour would be particularly suitable targets . |
| 8 | This sequence could not occur in The Possessed — a dangerous thing to say about a very long and diverse book , but true . |
| 9 | Kelly , who has won this race three times , said : ‘ It has been a very long and hard season for me , and I feel very tired . |
| 10 | Just inside the entrance , she turned to survey the clientèle , making sure as she did so that all the men got a tantalising glimpse of a very long and elegant leg exposed through a side slit . |
| 11 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had a very long and happy life without sex . |
| 13 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 14 | ‘ We have got a very long and relevant association with football which is the nation 's number one sport . |
| 15 | We hope that you will always enjoy life together , a very long and happy life together , and that you will always retain the enthusiasm of this new start , and remember the joy and delight of finding each other , which is so evident today . |
| 16 | We hope that both of you will always enjoy married life , a very long and happy life together . |
| 17 | She took a very long and deep breath . |
| 18 | Holmes , for example , whose textbook ‘ Principles of physical geology ’ was used by generations of geology students , once had a paper rejected by the Geological Society of London , and thereafter refused to submit any papers to any of that body 's journals , throughout a very long and prolific career . |
| 19 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 20 | We wish a very long and happy retirement . |
| 21 | He 's had a very long and trying ordeal , and apart from his physical injuries he 's had the cold and damp to deal with too , so his body 's had a pretty severe challenge . |
| 22 | ‘ To set up a formal sheriff 's inquiry is a very long and complicated process and a legal process , ’ he said . |