Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His paper of January 1856 turned out to be only the beginning of a long argument about the need to abolish serfdom in order to put the Russian army on a sounder footing . |
| 2 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 3 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 5 | He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side . |