Example sentences of "their [noun] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 2 | Yields in general will tend to be higher for longer term investments , because lenders require to be compensated for giving up their money for long periods of time . |
| 3 | Headless Periplaneta and Schistocerca can be trained to flex their legs for long periods in order to avoid an electric shock . |
| 4 | We pray for those who are confined to their homes for long periods . |
| 5 | They discovered sweatshops and people working in their homes for long hours trying to erm patch together a very very poor living . |
| 6 | This was particularly true for those small communities , small towns , or groups of peasants , who had won their privileges after long struggles against a higher authority . |
| 7 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 8 | A regiment may swap their bows for long bows at an additional cost of +1 point per model . |
| 9 | This means the High Elves must rely on their bowmen and their magicians for long range mass slaughter . |
| 10 | This season their battle for long distance honours goes world championship again with the action spread from Le Mans in France to Phillip Island in Australia |
| 11 | The two principals she served under were men coming to the end of their service after long experience as leaders . |
| 12 | Together with inevitable involvement with patients and their families over long periods , this encourages a change of emphasis from diagnosis/treatment/cure to assessment/assistance/care . |
| 13 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ A large percentage have spent years hiding their arms under long sleeves and are highly embarrassed by the results of a mistake made years ago . |
| 15 | They then harangued their audience with long and complex arguments about the exploitative nature of capitalism and the need for working-class unity which no one , apart from themselves , wanted to hear . |
| 16 | Did you notice how their attacker with long hair seemed to crouch down and try to catch the ball every time a ball came near , Fairclough was excellent at marking him , I think they wore the same pair of shorts ! |
| 17 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
| 18 | Those that do come are small pallid workers , inching their way in long columns across the floor and down the shafts to collect the moist mud that is needed for further building work . |
| 19 | Most prisoners are confined to their cells for long periods of time . |
| 20 | Low commented that the British in India spent much of their time on long journeys by rail , and their journeys were ‘ elaborate proceedings , not to be transacted in the casual fashion ’ customary in Europe : |
| 21 | So now when our crews came back from their missions and we heard snatches of their conversations about long lines of refugees , about cities being devastated , and miles and miles of fires , I remembered Kings Cross and could only feel pity for what these civilians were now enduring ; French , Dutch , German or whatever . |