Example sentences of "[art] long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The first note is usually the longest and marks the beginning . ) |
| 2 | And , despite claims , particularly among the Germans , French , Italians and Spanish , that it is a bad thing , many American insurance companies reckon that people with low blood pressure in middle age , far from suffering a disease , are expected to lead the longest and healthiest lives . |
| 3 | Chrysler 's next Plymouth , the 1955 model , was sixteen inches longer and three inches lower than its predecessor , the longest and lowest car for the money . |
| 4 | His daughter , eleven years of age , plays the harpsichord in the most brilliant manner ; she performs the longest and most difficult pieces with an astonishing precision . |
| 5 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 6 | The miners ' strike which lasted from March 1984 to March 1985 was not the only example of industrial conflict in Britain in the past two decades , but it was easily the longest and the most violent . |
| 7 | They are the longest and thickest of the ordinary body hairs and serve to protect the underfur from the outside elements , keeping it dry and snug . |
| 8 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 9 | In one of the longest and most turgid sentences on the statute book , Parliament provided , effectively as it turned out , that the Crown should pass to Sophia , Electress of Hanover ‘ and the Heirs of Her Body being Protestants ’ . |
| 10 | The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity . |
| 11 | The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland . |
| 12 | The one Johnson 's enthusiasm faded and he soon drifted away from the sport ; the other had his first competitive contest in the following January and so began one of the longest and least celebrated ring careers in British boxing . |
| 13 | Taken as a single body of water , between its source and where its waters reach the sea at Marienburg as the Reik , this is the longest and most substantial river system in the Old World . |
| 14 | The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna . |
| 15 | Body length and the lengths of the longest and shortest tail feathers were measured on 10 male and 10 female skins in breeding plumage ( except=only 5 males and 6 females ; =only 8 females ) . |
| 16 | Yet , ingratiating and inventive in equal measure , they thrived to form the longest and greatest tradition of British art . |
| 17 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 18 | Arising from the deutocerebrum are four pairs of nerves : the antenna/nerves are the longest and most important , and are the sensory nerves of the antennae though the motor fibres mentioned next are also present in the same nerve ; each has two roots , one of which is derived from the antennal lobe of its side and the other from the dorsal lobe . |
| 19 | It is a giant amongst rivers , the longest and mightiest in the world . |
| 20 | The 1991 results are likely to be poor but , as the dominant UK credit insurer operating in the longest and deepest recession for many years , one can hardly expect to see good figures . |
| 21 | Neile 's particular contribution was the provision of the longest and most powerful telescopes that had been produced in England for Ward 's observatory at Wadham , and these were used by Wren in developing his theory of Saturn 's rings . |
| 22 | Here are relevant extracts from the longest and nastiest , WIT for MONEY : OR , POET STUTTER . |
| 23 | The second dorsalmost arm spine is the longest and maybe nearly 3 arm segments long . |
| 24 | There are 7–8 smooth arm spines , the first 3–4 dorsal spines are the longest and on proximal segments are smoother and thinner than the ventral ones . |
| 25 | There are 4–5 arm spines of which the ventralmost is usually the longest and often sabre shaped . |
| 26 | ‘ Walk A is the longest and hardest option covering eight miles and a 3,000 feet ascent while at the other end of the scale a D class walk would cover the same distance but ascend just 1,500 feet . ’ |
| 27 | The longest and costliest criminal trial in US history ended on Jan. 18 when Raymond Buckey and his mother , Peggy McMartin Buckey , were acquitted of charges that they had sexually molested children at their family-owned kindergarten in Los Angeles , California . |
| 28 | The longest and costliest criminal case in US history ended on July 27 when the prosecution dropped child molestation charges against Raymond Buckey after the jury had declared itself unable to arrive at a majority verdict . |
| 29 | He 's about to tackle what must be the longest and the loneliest battle of all — swimming the English channel . |
| 30 | A MAJOR environmental scheme is to be carried out on Cookstown 's main street — the longest and widest in Ireland . |