Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a long [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 2 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
| 3 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 4 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
| 5 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , this is the first winter for a long time in which Lowa has no distribution in Britain but I dare say someone will fill the gap before long . |
| 7 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 8 | The front page was a picture of the Asian girl below a long headline in lower-case type . |
| 9 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 10 | Now near retirement after a long career in product development , Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour . |
| 11 | Rey was probably heir to a long tradition in the matter of prompting : no prompt-box can be seen in the illustrations from the 1747 Palais-Royal performance ( illus.s ) or the 1745 Versailles performance ( illus.3 ) . |
| 12 | A referee 's mistake lost them the match against Auckland and they were in with a chance for a long time in the Test — there was only one — before being beaten 11–3 . |
| 13 | Arriving with Prince William in Alice Springs , Australia , at the beginning of a long tour in 1983 |
| 14 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 15 | He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence . |
| 16 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 17 | We had a hell of a long time in the what 's it ? |
| 18 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 19 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 20 | We just sat ( there were two of us ) one on either side , outside her door at the end of a long corridor in The Inn On The Park hotel . |
| 21 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |
| 22 | In the Pennsylvania primary , Lynn Yeakel , a 50-year-old Democrat with a long experience in working for battered women , job training , abortion counselling and family health care , scored a big upset victory after running ads on TV showing excerpts from the Hill hearings . |
| 23 | History records that , after months of study , Dewey was thinking about the problem during a long sermon in church . |
| 24 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 25 | By good luck , they were in the middle of a long stint in London . |
| 26 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 27 | The new building was opened with great fanfare in January 1895 , and the grateful deaf members appointed William Agnew a director , a position he retained until his death after a long illness in 1914 . |
| 28 | It is worth noting that many of the recent habitat changes caused by agriculture in Sussex , and elsewhere , partly result from the reversal of a long decline in farming prosperity between 1875 and 1940 . |