Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smaller the change the longer is the time for which the two solutions remain close , but they never do so indefinitely . |
| 2 | ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said . |
| 3 | These were not equal , the afternoon session being an hour the longer . |
| 4 | Late on Monday afternoon the long owlish hoot of the train whistle was heard throughout the town . |
| 5 | Clough 's offer to date falls short of Ferguson 's valuation but the longer Forest struggle the longer the United chief can afford to wait . |
| 6 | Last year , with triumphant results , she gambled her comfortable reputation on a pair of unglamorous and intensely challenging roles ; in CP Taylor 's classic play Good and John MacGrath 's TV movie The Long Roads . |
| 7 | There is a good chance of being disturbed by a wandering monster the longer Samson remains in a particular location . ) |
| 8 | His delicious Pas des Légumes performed at a special performance to mark the market 's passing brought to mind the long history not only of the ‘ fruit and veg ’ , but also of Harlequin , Columbine and their colleagues of the commedia dell'arte , inhabitants for many years of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , and the King 's Theatre , Drury Lane , where the first ballets d'action were staged . |
| 9 | He made out a clear case for embalming all bodies and for treating them all similarly , bearing in mind the long incubation period and uncertain diagnosis in HIV infections . |
| 10 | With due respect to the galleries it will be the counter attack which the Europeans mounted on the final afternoon which will linger in this mind the longest . |
| 11 | Given the setbacks encountered in the really big cases it is understandable that the authorities now wish to make some headway as regards the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. accusations which , although dwarfed by comparison with Carrian and B.M.F.L. , were nevertheless concerned with really serious offences : as witness the long sentences imposed on those who have been dealt with on kindred matters . |
| 12 | For during this first term the long regular letters to Harry Hooton appear to be a substitute for letters to Helen and a roundabout way of informing her of his progress . |
| 13 | For subjects in the critical experimental condition the long interval was filled by one auditory stimulus ( say a clicker ) and the short interval was filled by a different stimulus ( such as a tone ) . |
| 14 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 15 | I think you 're only talking about redundancies if we ca n't erm take some short term work from elsewhere , er as opposed to , I mean , I 'm suggesting at the moment we take stock a longer time |
| 16 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 17 | One evening Mrs Hollidaye brought to the bedroom a long wooden box . |
| 18 | Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally . |
| 19 | I 've been a soldier myself , I was a soldier a long long time ago and er er training was different in my day to what it is today . |
| 20 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 21 | One thing , one thing about it , it 's crossed my mind a long time ago is er the idea of erm in the half hour or whatever twenty minutes before a concert , doing er concert programme notes |
| 22 | Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time . |
| 23 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 24 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 25 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 26 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 27 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 28 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
| 29 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 30 | All you had to do was wear a long raincoat and a glum expression — the rest was simply implied . |