Example sentences of "[noun sg] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mayors and councillors from Poole , Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the party to see the Hamble crude oil loading end of the 56-mile long pipeline from the Wytch Farm oilfield . |
| 2 | Action Base Layer roll neck long sleeve top and long johns . |
| 3 | A PP-3 9-volt long life battery is included but there 's no mains transformer ; the only other accessory is a 9 to 25-pin serial adaptor . |
| 4 | Several sessions of sports talks , designed to agree upon the formation of a single Korean team for the 1990 Asian Games [ see pp. 36975 ; 37041 ] , were equally unsuccessful and finally broke down on Jan. 29 after the North Korean delegation arrived with a three-metre long picture of the concrete wall to whose alleged existence Kim had referred . |
| 5 | The lads arrive at the local nick to find their Houdini pa has done a bunk and they wander about the country trying to locate him , pitching up in a one horse Long Island seaside town . |
| 6 | Within the current therapeutic dose range there is no evidence to suggest dose dependent nephrotoxicity and in the present study long term maintenance treatment with delayed release mesalazine was no more nephrotoxic than continued treatment with sulphasalazine . |
| 7 | Investigations in the temple of Aphrodite , after whom the city was named , have revealed evidence ofa long history for the cult of the goddess going back to the sixth century ac . |
| 8 | Five point one three , five thirteen , Fire Brigade Long Service and Public Medals Ceremony . |
| 9 | Excellent anti-corrosion protection means there is no chance of unsightly staining and the Dorman Long design ensures there will be no mildew forming on the plaster as a result of cold bridging . |
| 10 | Your correspondent could refer back to Northern Echo archives and CSE , but meanwhile he should let the Sydney Harbour Bridge remain as part of the history of the now defunct Dorman Long group and of Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | Outstanding prospect Lindsay Robinson ( Chester-le-Street ) continued her excellent start to the season at the Derwentside long distance meet by winning all her six girls ' 11–12 races over 200m backstroke , breaststroke , butterfly , 400m individual medley , 400m and 800m freestyle . |
| 12 | Dotted around the 50-mile long island are Stallone 's five hideaways which he began buying up 10 years ago . |
| 13 | For a small village Long Riston is well equipped for sporting and other leisure activities . |
| 14 | The eleven-metre long Allosaurus — the ‘ leaping lizard ’ — weighing up to two tons , as big as a bus , was able to take strides two metres long . |
| 15 | He was wearing an open neck designer type long sleeve shirt and dark trousers . |
| 16 | Trim thin roots into 2–3in long pieces and arrange them on their sides on the surface of a boxful of cutting compost . |
| 17 | It will also look at what the implications of this are for UK competitiveness long term and for UK involvement in European based defence technology initiatives . |
| 18 | There is no irony in this ; indeed this is firmly in line with many similar statements collected in fieldnotes , which consider it to be totally inappropriate for policemen to mirror the style of the locals if they wear track suits or jeans or sport longer hair and beards . |
| 19 | The Gloucester Forest Eyre rolls of 1270 and 1282 record long lists of offences of which the foresters of fee of the Forest of Dean were convicted . |
| 20 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |
| 21 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 22 | ‘ We are not going to be in business long term , ’ Mr Crandall said at a dinner with the reporters . |
| 23 | ‘ At the labour costs we incur today , we can not be in business long term . ’ |
| 24 | Martin Campbell ( Carryduff ) had a great bag of 20 trout in two hours and the most successful flies included Muddlers , Montanas , Buzzers , Vivas and Daddy Long Legs . |
| 25 | the journal Long Room , which contains articles about the Library 's collections and other items of biographical interest . |
| 26 | Disqualification Long coat . |
| 27 | The Soviet emphasis on simple materials and technologies ensures in contrast long production lines , low unit costs , and an ability to turn spare capacity over to military production with a minimum of retraining and re-tooling . |
| 28 | With all this yuppie rubbish at the moment , I 'd say it 's long hair , neat but sexy clothes , of course long nails , straight teeth , small nose , big eyes , shaved armpits and legs , nice perfume , and an independent-but-dying-to-be-subservient look about her . |
| 29 | The Autocar Long Term Test |
| 30 | She sat bolt upright in the back seat during the hour long journey , some of which was on a motorway . |