Example sentences of "through a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bajamunde farm was about 10 minutes — 15p , with a tip — along the coast by trishaw , an undemanding trip ( even for the driver ) , through a long avenue of palms beside the beach . |
| 2 | The play follows six women as they laugh and work , flirt and fight their way through a long hard year on the farm . |
| 3 | In the desolate landscape of East Lothian and the border farms of the 1860s six women laugh , work , flirt and fight their way through a long hard year of farmwork . |
| 4 | The first point is that the user , if he or she uses the guide at all , probably finds the task of wading through a long , unindexed guide to find some specific piece of information somewhat tedious . |
| 5 | Encouraged by his sister Julie , a night-club singer , he became an extra in films and graduated his way through a long succession of walk-ons to become a featured player in B-pictures . |
| 6 | He smoked through a long amber cigarette holder . |
| 7 | These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory . |
| 8 | Sustaining men through a long sentence is much more than providing work or classes , important though they are . |
| 9 | I have been through a long period of psychotherapy dealing with this abuse and continue to find internal examinations traumatic . |
| 10 | Following the pre-meiotic 5-phase interval , the cells proceed as spermatocytes through a long meiotic prophase and then through the two cell divisions leading to the production of haploid gametes . |
| 11 | His commitment to School was matched by his commitment to his wife , whom he nursed through a long illness without ever missing a day at School . |
| 12 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 13 | Riots in the United States were once described as continuing through a long hot summer . |
| 14 | He has , of course , come into recent prominence through a long association with the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 15 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 16 | Scroll through a long document in a DOS word processor , then compare that to wading through a Word for Windows file . |
| 17 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 18 | When the picture is sharp enough on fast search ( machines vary ) , then you have a way of skipping through a long programme , perhaps selecting only some sections for normal viewing . |
| 19 | The arduous task of legging through a long tunnel like that under Castle Hill at Dudley could take over 3 hours . |
| 20 | These were the seductive amusements of my youth : they have clung to me through a long life , and they are now the solace of my old age . ’ |
| 21 | Hugo was smoking a thin cigarette through a long cloisonné holder which he now began to wave about , causing highly aromatic ash to fall on to the sleeve of his green velvet jacket . |
| 22 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 23 | A much-loved brother dying in rather questionable circumstances , then her first husband … and then having to nurse her second husband — my father — through a long illness at a time when she herself was n't well . |
| 24 | People arriving in this country for such a purpose have to go through a long interview procedure to process their claims . |
| 25 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 26 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 27 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 28 | The students all studied through a long distance learning scheme with four tutors based in different parts of Britain . |
| 29 | The device was inspired by a bus journey taken by Gysin , when the sun flickered through a long avenue of trees . |
| 30 | He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted . |