Example sentences of "[adv] long [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shroud is , again , a one-piece creation , sufficiently long to be draped over and under the feet , the sleeves equally full . |
| 2 | Almost invariably , when that happens , its blue tail drops off and lies wriggling on the rock with such vigour that the aggressor 's attention is diverted to it , often for sufficiently long for the skink itself to slip free and escape . |
| 3 | This period was sufficiently long for the widespread planation of oceanic islands , many of them volcanic . |
| 4 | She had been so long without a woman friend . |
| 5 | I told her next door you 'd be coming , but I did n't think you 'd be so long about it . |
| 6 | I mean , amazing that that lasted so long through |
| 7 | That 's why they 're taking so long over the job specification . ’ |
| 8 | That 's why I take so long over it . |
| 9 | After so long of acquiescence , the Welsh felt themselves Welsh again , a nation with a prince and a prophet of their own . |
| 10 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 11 | It had been so long for her she was like a dam waiting to burst . |
| 12 | But from ninety one ninety two onwards a married woman was entitled to an allowance in her own right , and it still mystifies me knowing Mrs Thatcher was in office for all those years , why it took so long for this to happen , . |
| 13 | I 'd like to know why it 's taken so long for this union to work again er , with the regulations in public services . |
| 14 | Yeah why 's , why 's it taken so long for Friends Provident to get round to doing this ? |
| 15 | Well it 's so long for the . |
| 16 | His attack on individuals had become increasingly scandalous : he described an elderly Senate colleague as " a living miracle " — the only man who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts " . |
| 17 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 18 | You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van |
| 19 | In fact , the hours are so long at clubs I suspect an ordinary shop-keeping junior would soon quit and go back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 20 | At the packed Army & Navy store in Guildford , Surrey , queues were so long at the tills that staff used the public address system to apologise and appeal for patience . |
| 21 | As Richards pointed out , the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait so long to be written shows the strength of the taboos we have inherited . |
| 22 | For example , why is it that personnel appointments take so long to be announced when there is often no adequate reason for the delay ? |
| 23 | Erm , or they stop , the current speaker stops thinking that somebody might want to join in , or the erm , spea current speaker chooses the next one , but the person they choose takes so long to actually respond , the current speaker carries on , because he thinks they 're not going to say anything . |
| 24 | So long to Christmas . |
| 25 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 26 | The old man , who had been about to start grumbling about being kept so long from his work , blushed with pride and pleasure . |
| 27 | He enjoyed brushing it , even when she made him stand so long behind her chair that his arms ached and his eyelids started to droop . |
| 28 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 29 | The ride itself was very open and exposed and after being so long in the close embrace of the trees Marian found it difficult to step out into the clear daylight . |
| 30 | The joyless cynicism , vicious cruelty , and ugly surroundings of his new life were his punishment for living so long in foolish illusion . |