Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That was nothing to my thoughts two minutes later when I joined the back of a long queue for a bus that already had people standing ! |
| 32 | The Public Order Act represented the culmination of a long debate within the government about how increased civil disorder should be controlled . |
| 33 | The prospect of a long war with the inevitable increase in demand for service manpower was a critical factor . |
| 34 | We had a hell of a long time in the what 's it ? |
| 35 | Alistair Mitchell-Innes , chief executive , said his appointment was the culmination of a long search for a person ‘ with good City contacts . ’ |
| 36 | She could just make out , beyond her own reflection , the night-shapes of a long garden with a flood-wall and a towpath at its end . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Not a bad idea to remind them of this more than once during the development of an estate ; and remember , acting for either seller or buyer , that on the granting of a long lease of a flat a plan is essential . |
| 39 | On a small site it is important to think about the conditions and to consider what is the best way of turning to make use of a longer run on the airfield , or to avoid having to dodge obstructions . |
| 40 | Gone are the days when you were likely to be alone on the rim path , but if the five miles escarpment is included as part of a longer circuit of the vast moorland , walkers seeking solitude will find their fair share — and a good test of their navigation skills . |
| 41 | The depth of a ( rooted ) tree is the length of a longest path from the root to a leaf . |
| 42 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
| 43 | They 're , they 're like a long stick with a handle on them are n't they ? |
| 44 | ‘ It 's like a long drink to a thirsty man ’ . |
| 45 | ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe . |
| 46 | It had been higher still , probably some three or four days earlier , for it had bitten a great red hole in the shelving bank , like a long wound in the smooth turf , and left the traces of its attack in half-dried puddles of silky clay and a litter of sodden leaves and bushes . |
| 47 | Stretching to ease tired muscles , she debated whether to go for a swim in the pool or opt for a long soak in a warm scented bath . |
| 48 | His morning swims at the Queen Mother Leisure Centre in Victoria are a vital part of his training which he describes as ‘ a treat for my body after the running ’ and , like many other runners , he will go out for a long run on a Sunday . |
| 49 | You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch . |
| 50 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 51 | ‘ She 's gone to Sam 's party , ’ said Scarlet , hastily , applying the brush to her hair and wondering why it made you feel so odd if you looked at yourself for a long while in the glass . |
| 52 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 53 | Supertop ran well for a long way in the season 's opener at Doncaster . |
| 54 | Was it at this moment that some reciprocal need established an understanding that they two were friends , would know each other for a long part of a life-time ? |
| 55 | He hired a car and took the boy down for a long weekend at the St. Mellion Golf and Country Club . |
| 56 | TAKE OFF FOR A LONG WEEKEND WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF CITROËN |
| 57 | Any Charioteer may swap his bow for a long bow at a cost of +1 point . |
| 58 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 59 | For a long period before the 1970s they were Fordist ; in the 1970s/1980s period of structural change neo-Fordism came to dominate . |
| 60 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |