Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] a long list " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances are you 've not yet considered the security of your home , not a lot of people do — it 's at the bottom of a long list of priorities . |
| 2 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 3 | The three Which Mortgage awards are merely the culmination in a long list of achievements in Abbey National 's impressive history . |
| 4 | Once again we 've supplied the sails for a long list of medal winners . |
| 5 | This ceremony , called puja , involves the recitation of a long list of seers and gods to show the ‘ pedigree ’ of a mantra . |
| 6 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 7 | When I was at school and university in the 1960s , when the myth of progress was still very much alive , my social and political lessons tended to recite the advances of the century as a long list of linear progress : the gradual emergence from primitivism to modern civilisation . |