Example sentences of "long [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organised by Kathmandu 's only cycle tour operator , the trip was n't too long or demanding , and was designed to introduce Nepalese culture , history and ( in theory , anyway ) Himalayan views at the top . |
| 2 | These involve the purchase or sale of a single security or option ; i.e. long or short shares , long or written calls and long or written puts . |
| 3 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 4 | No matter what the emergency , accident or disease , no matter how long or complicated the treatment … the health service will always be there , to provide the finest care . ’ |
| 5 | Too little has been made in social work of the effect upon the child of long or repeated absences by the parent , except in relation to early maternal deprivation . |
| 6 | Ten minutes too long during a schooling session might mean a week 's set-back in a training programme , so be careful not to either work for too long or to expect too much too soon . |
| 7 | Do you , do you know how long that took ? |
| 8 | The filming took so long that had to remake the heap a couple of times and start again . |
| 9 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 10 | A short side road branches off to a passenger ferry across the Kyle , linking the opposite shore with a narrow strip of tarmac eleven miles long that provides the only access to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath . |
| 11 | He was no good at games — " more long than stop " as he once remarked to my cricket-loving sons — but early on had remarkable control over a bicycle and later in life showed aptitude for skiing in spite of his great length of leg — and he was a beautiful ballroom dancer . |
| 12 | Tales , too , of his prowess at cricket — " More long than stop " — and his magic rhyme which he would only ever say twice to any one person . |
| 13 | ( The story of how we acquired 800 uniform boxes is too long and exhausting for this report , nut Bill Axford is the hero of that one … ) . |
| 14 | ’ Never were our Highlanders in higher spirits notwithstanding their long and fatiguing march … ’ commented another . |
| 15 | THIS irrigator , standing sentinel over a polythene-covered potato crop , is almost 1,500 ft long and presents a striking landscape feature on A.W . |
| 16 | She is an inch long and digs a burrow six inches deep into soft ground . |
| 17 | It is 4,451 km long and crosses 150 km of perma-frost , 700km of swamp and over 500km of mountains . |
| 18 | This section is c. 900 feet long and crosses the valley 180 feet above the River Gard . |
| 19 | He 's had a very long and trying ordeal , and apart from his physical injuries he 's had the cold and damp to deal with too , so his body 's had a pretty severe challenge . |
| 20 | He was fastidious about his hair , which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate . |
| 21 | The first is a pre filter to hold up to 31 of Siporax , which it is claimed is sufficient filtration for 20 fish 12″ long and obviates the need for traditional filters . |
| 22 | These and other groups plan to construct detectors with arms about I km long and to use about 150 passes . |
| 23 | I would take too long and use too much paper , but it was fantastic ! |
| 24 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke had been silent too long and burst again into stereo action . |
| 25 | Schofield won a long and taxing three setter , 6–3 , 4–6 , 7–6 , and went on to defeat Cowan 6–4 , 6–4 in the final . |
| 26 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 27 | Citadel : VII , 8 on the other hand , has excellent protection but is long and sustained with the crux right at the top when abseil retreat is both difficult and uninviting . |
| 28 | She wrote a long and moving letter , describing her terrifying experience of being raped whilst on holiday with two friends . |
| 29 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 30 | The Dardanelles , a strait some 60km/40mls long and varying from 1.6–6.4kml/1–4mls wide , connect the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara . |