Example sentences of "[adv] after a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be .
2 Before he 'd even put the head down after a long flight to Glasgow , Lindi was expressing his confidence about Monday 's outcome .
3 He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister .
4 That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work .
5 Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother .
6 Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office .
7 It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness .
8 It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway .
9 Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ .
10 He had reached there late after a long tramp from Ballyjamesduff in the next county .
11 Susanna Lewis 's very popular book A Machine Knitter 's Guide to Creating Fabrics is available again after a long absence from the bookshelves .
12 And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure .
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