Example sentences of "the [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homemade panettone made with top quality peel and fruit has a wonderful flavour that justly rewards the rather long preparation time . |
| 2 | As yet un-named , although with tentative grading of around E7 6b , the first ascent included an exiting finish in the dark — hence the rather long pitch length . |
| 3 | Hence the rather long question that makes up the sub-title of this section . |
| 4 | This is an exercise in persuasion , and requires composers who will focus their art on the simple and fundamental act of communication with their enthusiastic but tired , inattentive , restless , distracted and easily bored fellow human beings who none the less long to hear themselves in a not necessarily flattering mirror of music . |
| 5 | The effects of oil pollution on marine mammals are more severe in colder waters , not only because of the much longer time required for the oil to break down , but also because concentrations of cetaceans and other marine mammals are often larger in polar waters . |
| 6 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 7 | Changes in the normal oxygen/carbon dioxide levels occur in the lungs and , in the much longer term , this may have an effect on the acidity of the blood . |
| 8 | The latter area is developing so rapidly , and sees so many new initiatives , that its shape is still relatively unclear and the techniques are still being refined ; but they are firmly based on the much longer experience gained through co-operation in the civil area . |
| 9 | Compare this short algebra sentence with the much longer sentence it replaces . |
| 10 | The much longer route along the river , which we chose to follow , has neither a railway nor any proper roads . |
| 11 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 12 | Only a small part of this difference between the two planets is due to the much longer night on Venus : the main reason is unknown . |
| 13 | I think that what we have to decide today , or one of the things that needs to be decided is , is the new settlement in the longer term a sensible answer given that all the all the various considerations , and that erm arguing about residual numbers , here or there has to be taken in the much longer context , I think that 's what all I would like the to say at the moment on on new settlement erm because of the situation I am in of not being able to er say too much in detail about it , I sha n't be making very many contributions to this particular debate . |
| 14 | There was an enormous increase in world industrial capacity as the technological gap between the USA and the major economies was closed ; and over the somewhat longer term , the income elasticity of demand for manufactured goods fell . |
| 15 | Horses need sufficient good feed , and due to the extremely long length of their intestines they need a lot of roughage — that means good pasture or hay . |
| 16 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 17 | The extra long trigger ( 50mm ) means that two or three fingers can be used , rather than the conventional single-finger action , thus spreading the load . |
| 18 | She struggled into Penry 's thick white sweatshirt , rolled the ludicrously long sleeves back , then began tidying the bed . |
| 19 | In the still longer term it would be possible for national planners and institutional managers of initial teacher education to adjust the mix of curriculum , pedagogy and school-based learning in such a way as to narrow avoidable gaps between initial and in-service teacher education . |
| 20 | It 's well worth the slightly longer walk as in Greek terms it really is quite comfortable and is part of a complex of hotels based around the lovely Atlantis complex . |
| 21 | It was the need to provide so many public areas which produced the enormously long frontages of these stations , the buildings often as long as the platforms themselves . |
| 22 | In the enormously long statement which followed the Communists were branded as ‘ Vipers in the bosom ’ . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the greatest injustice to genuine asylum seekers is to be found in the enormously long delays that occur in the processing of applications ? |
| 24 | The difficulties encountered in negotiating all the necessary approvals , particularly the funding , for a scheme which departed from the norm of fair rent housing explain the exceptionally long period of four years that preceded commencement of the building contract . |
| 25 | A quarter of convicts are over 40 ( Table 2.1 ) , mainly because of the exceptionally long periods that ‘ lifers ’ spend in gaol : the minimum period to be served is fourteen years . |
| 26 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 27 | The comparatively long time intervals between such environmental vicissitudes may be characterized by stasis in ecosystems as well as the component species . |
| 28 | Kuhn argued that the comparatively long periods of normal science were punctuated by crises when the existing paradigms broke down and a new paradigm , and eventually orthodoxy , would become established ; the Copernican revolution was a prime example of this . |
| 29 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 30 | The most import ; ant characters which distinguish the Ophiacanthinae are the often long and narrow mainly internal radial shields ; the small scale-like plates of the disk and the relative broad jaw coupled with a relatively simple arrangement of apical and oral papillae . |