Example sentences of "beginning [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 1 So what do you think happened ? 2 This passage comes from the beginning of a long story .
2 Arriving with Prince William in Alice Springs , Australia , at the beginning of a long tour in 1983
3 It was the beginning of a long night , and by morning all four of them were sleeping soundly .
4 Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit .
5 He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship .
6 In either case the initial statement is merely the beginning of a long road .
7 I and my right hon. Friend would be the first to admit that the White Paper process is the beginning of a long road .
8 This was the beginning of a long conflict between Conservative Lords and Liberal Commons which lasted until 1911 .
9 His paper of January 1856 turned out to be only the beginning of a long argument about the need to abolish serfdom in order to put the Russian army on a sounder footing .
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