Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extended families are split up as the men move first , to be followed only after a fairly long interval by wives and children and often never by other relatives . |
| 2 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 3 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 4 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 5 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 6 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 7 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 8 | However , the considerations given earlier on overflow area size and the need to allow for a relatively long period between reorganizations will guide the designer to a reasonable compromise . |
| 9 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 10 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 11 | Many in the Labour movement were prepared to admit that without a strong combination forcing the National Government out of office " we may not get a chance for a very long time of putting into effect our ultimate aims " . |
| 12 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 13 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 14 | Frankly , she could survive in great happiness for a very long time without ever setting eyes on him again . |
| 15 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 16 | It is a factor recognised for a very long time in relation to language learning . |
| 17 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 18 | It would evidently be impossible to resume normal living conditions for a very long time after fallout of the assumed density . ’ |
| 19 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 20 | One possibility would be a statutory reformulation of Rylands v. Fletcher shorn of the qualifications and defences which so emasculate it now , perhaps on the lines of the Restatement , which imposes strict liability on one who carries on an ‘ abnormally dangerous activity , ’ but this would be open to varying judicial inclinations and would give rise to considerable uncertainty for a very long period of time . |
| 21 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 22 | All subject groups had DGR for some of the study period ; however , both groups of patients had reflux for a significantly longer proportion of study time than the normal controls ( 12% of study time for normal controls , 67% for gastric ulcer patients , and 91% for gastric surgery patients ; p<0.001 gastric ulcer v controls and p<0.0002 gastric surgery v controls ; Fig 1 ) . |
| 23 | The idea of entitlement probably represents an attempt , during a much longer debate about the need for a ‘ national ’ curriculum , to bring into focus the child 's individual needs and rights : it is needed to counterbalance any propensity towards the state 's collective needs — totalitarianism if you will — which a move towards a nationally prescribed curriculum might bring with it . |
| 24 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 25 | On the next cast I touch-leger again , only with a fairly long loop of line pulled out from between butt-ring and reel ( see pages 15–17 ) . |
| 26 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 27 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 28 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 29 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 30 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |