Example sentences of "much long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Only a small part of this difference between the two planets is due to the much longer night on Venus : the main reason is unknown . |
| 2 | The Criminal Justice Act will allow for much longer supervision of sex offenders after they are released from gaol . |
| 3 | The four-year-old won a juvenile hurdle before that and it seems trainer Jimmy FitzGerald has brought about considerable improvement by asking his four-year-old to tackle much longer distances on the Flat than last year . |
| 4 | The much longer route along the river , which we chose to follow , has neither a railway nor any proper roads . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 7 | As A. G. Street so clearly demonstrated in his classic Farmer 's Glory in the 1930s , these indulgences have invariably been followed , quite suddenly , by much longer periods of agricultural depression when the land has had to be grassed down to rebuild fertility . |
| 8 | In prolonged breeding , on the other hand , mating takes place over much longer periods of time , or indeed throughout the year . |
| 9 | In fact , according to the physics of 1864 , he was correct : it was only the discovery of then unknown sources of nuclear energy which allowed physicists to suppose a much longer life-span for the sun and consequently the earth . |
| 10 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 11 | Its much longer history before the 1880s is hardly visible . |
| 12 | The first is an invaluable collection of popular tunes with instructions for dancing to them , which reached its eighteenth edition around 1728 ; the second contains pieces for viols and vocal rounds and catches , a peculiarly English form of musical amusement which had flourished briefly in James I 's time ( Thomas Ravenscroft 's collections Pammelia , Deuteromelia , and Melismata , 1609–11 ) , languished for forty years , and now took a very much longer lease of life . |
| 13 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 14 | The results could be vaccines against flu that provide much longer immunity against influenza , than do the present killed-virus vaccines . |
| 15 | It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time . |
| 16 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 17 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 18 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 19 | The idea of entitlement probably represents an attempt , during a much longer debate about the need for a ‘ national ’ curriculum , to bring into focus the child 's individual needs and rights : it is needed to counterbalance any propensity towards the state 's collective needs — totalitarianism if you will — which a move towards a nationally prescribed curriculum might bring with it . |
| 20 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 21 | While there are still reservations among orthopaedic surgeons about the problems of removing the artificial hip and the long-term stability of the coatings , many believe that using these coatings offers the potential for much longer lifetimes of the artificial joint and their use in younger patients . |