Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This volume closes with a long inventory of the furnishings belonging to Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga not long before his death in 1756 . |
| 2 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 3 | Lee Harpin ODs on a long weekend of TV football |
| 4 | Start2 builds on a long history of arms accords and summits between Moscow and Washington . |
| 5 | Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category . |
| 6 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 7 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 8 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |