Example sentences of "during a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prevent plants in containers and hanging baskets from drooping during a long hot summer by adding water-retentive gel , such as Broadleaf P4 , to the compost . |
| 2 | Throughout her marriage , and during a long period as a single parent , she was a journalist , editing magazines such as Honey , Over 21 , and Working Woman , as well as being Woman 's Page Editor on the Sunday Times and The Independent . |
| 3 | In early March , during a long visit to the Wordsworths made by Coleridge and Sara — now heavily pregnant with her second child was decided that once Alfoxden had been given up , they should all set sail from England and travel in Germany . |
| 4 | The most accessible way of progress was through education , for most people had very little money and men were prepared to study in the early morning and late at night during a long week 's work — 10 hours a day for five days and five hours on Saturdays . |
| 5 | On the night of 9 September 1975 , during a long and contentious meeting at the SFA 's headquarters , the case of The Copenhagen Five was heard in camera . |
| 6 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 7 | That was after he accused Berkeley 's Philosophy Professor of having ‘ idiotic ’ notions during a long debate on whether computers will ‘ think ’ like people in three centuries hence . |
| 8 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |
| 9 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 10 | She has already suffered more than most adults suffer during a long lifetime . |
| 11 | The 1989 glitch occurred at 09:36UT on 29 August during a long series of 610-MHz radio observations at Jodrell Bank . |
| 12 | She was worried by the way he roamed about touching everything , and during a long chat to Mrs Allinson expressed her concern that he could not get on with anything , and could not write or read . |
| 13 | During a long process of assimilation , the means were found for reinvesting the physical world with spiritual significance . |
| 14 | Being with him was like shading under a massive tree with deep roots , during a long hot summer and I shall always cherish that time . |
| 15 | During a long gestation period , there is a lot of talk and little action . |
| 16 | In Britain , this moment has several phases during a long and turbulent period from the late-eighteenth century to the 1840s . |
| 17 | History records that , after months of study , Dewey was thinking about the problem during a long sermon in church . |
| 18 | Doubts about his motivation were expressed during a long absence through injury last season , and Jarvis claims : ‘ It was pretty obvious that some people thought there was n't really much wrong with me . |
| 19 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 20 | It is fortunately in the hands of such a man as Captain Vidal , R.N. , who has steadily devoted himself , during a long period of ill-health , to complete this unpopular work , and to connect with it a minute examination of the Canary Islands . ’ |
| 21 | Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability . |
| 22 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 23 | The rationalisation remits have been a notable success enabling Johnson Matthey to maintain growth in profits during a long and deep worldwide recession . |
| 24 | Okay er , according to Darwin , and here I quote , in infants long before birth , says Darwin , the skins on the soles of the feet is thicker than on any other part of the body , and it can hardly be doubted that this is due to the inherited effects of pressure during a long series of generations . |
| 25 | Sometimes skipper Geoff Boycott would come up to me during a long spell and ask if I was feeling OK to continue . |