Example sentences of "of a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 2 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 3 | Straight and narrow Part one of David Stevens ' new series sets out the plans for his transformation of a long , narrow garden . |
| 4 | Usually it is at the end of a long day 's racing , with a number of stressful periods all adding to the pilot 's fatigue . |
| 5 | This is one of the effects of lack of oxygen , but also of dehydration at the end of a long day 's excitement . |
| 6 | It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In the course of a long and misspent career , I have probably seen less amusing comedies than this but , if so , I can not at present call any of them to mind . ’ |
| 8 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 9 | He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship . |
| 10 | Towards the end of a long and tiring night shift , when news was coming through of the murder of another member of the RUC , one policeman in particular decided to put the field-worker through a test of trust . |
| 11 | This is a grandaddy of a long distance path which traverses Wales through some stunning and remote mountain country . |
| 12 | A comfortable sleeping bag provides the means to re-charge your batteries at the end of a long day so it 's important to ensure you have the right one for the job . |
| 13 | It was the climax of a long , and indeed largely popular , campaign by the Thatcher government to undercut union monopoly in the labour market , and to exorcize memories of the ‘ winter of discontent ’ . |
| 14 | It took a hell of a long time but learn we did . |
| 15 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 16 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 17 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |
| 18 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 19 | The war was the cold , the wet , standing to your neck in a drain for a whole night with bloodhounds on your trail , not knowing how you could manage the next step toward the end of a long march . |
| 20 | The next morning they were idling in the luxury of a long breakfast , enjoying the chatting in the warmth of the room , the tussocks in the white field outside the window stiff with frost , the only green grass the huge dark circles under the cypress trees , when a single shotgun blast came from the front room . |
| 21 | However , in order to expose the nature of capitalism , Marx first had to show that capitalism is not based on some eternal immutable truth , as presented by economists , but is the product of a long history . |
| 22 | Arriving with Prince William in Alice Springs , Australia , at the beginning of a long tour in 1983 |
| 23 | ‘ This is a beautiful day at the end of a long way , but we are not yet at the end of that way , a whole lot remains to be done , ’ Mr Brandt said . |
| 24 | It needs space to throw the dice and this is not practical in planes and trains where it can do most to relieve the boredom of a long journey . |
| 25 | But by the end of a long morning , this show 's reputation for unrivalled unpredictability and entertainment was still intact . |
| 26 | Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests . |
| 27 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 28 | The chances are you 've not yet considered the security of your home , not a lot of people do — it 's at the bottom of a long list of priorities . |
| 29 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 30 | But these are hard times for Moroccans , what with a $22 billion foreign debt , a depressed market for the country 's main export , phosphates , and the after-effects of a long drought . |