Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |
| 2 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 3 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 4 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 5 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 6 | Do n't ask a babysitter to look after several children for a long time — for example , a whole day . |
| 7 | I am very grateful to Mr R. R. Mester for the following story of strange happenings on a long abandoned stretch of railway between Goldmire Junction and Millwood Junction on the original line of the Furness Railway . |
| 8 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 9 | ‘ She has worked and planned towards this dual-presidency for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | But among those with special achievements to their credit were the branches at Knebworth ( Hertfordshire ) , Kelvedon , Manningtree and Wivenhoe ( Essex ) , all of which published village histories during 1953–54 ; at Hemel Hempstead which duplicated and sold Welfare and the State , the log-book of weekly discussions in a Long Terminal on ‘ Economic and Social Problems ’ held in 1956–57 ; at Linton ( Cambridgeshire ) which followed up a music course by helping to launch the Linton Music Festival in July 1957 , destined to become an annual event ; and at Colchester where a Tutorial on archaeology from 1955 to 1958 led to the formation of the Colchester Archaeological Group . |
| 11 | I do n't think we will get anywhere by regarding children 's books as some kind of charitable cause with a long term and uncertain pay-off when the children eventually grows up to be an obedient adult book buyer . |
| 12 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
| 13 | General Mao-Tse-Tung was leading an army of 100,000 peasants on a long march south through Sianfu . |
| 14 | Not all of those people by a long way have any olympic ambitions but is nonetheless an important part of the perspective and indeed at the triangle that we need to support . |
| 15 | Certainly , the British attitude towards sex has excited a great deal of continental mirth for a long time , especially Latin mirth , I think . |
| 16 | Within another two miles we can pick out the inverted ‘ L ’ pattern of one end of a long forest where it touches a B road , adjacent to which point two minor roads feed in at T-junctions ( K , picture taken from south of track — with apologies for the slightly confusing cloud shadow . ) |
| 17 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
| 18 | An important aspect would be a study of the progress of a sample of young people over a long period . |
| 19 | An attenuation of latent inhibition with a long interval between exposure and conditioning has not always been found , even in flavour-aversion learning — Nachman and Jones ( 1974 ) and Siegel ( 1974 ) have found the latent inhibition effect to persist in strength at intervals of much more than 3.5 h . |
| 20 | Although Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) were able to demonstrate an apparent loss of latent inhibition over a long retention interval using chocolate milk as the CS , no effect was apparent when saccharin was used . |
| 21 | Light : Requires plenty of bright light over a longer period than is required by most other plants . |
| 22 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 23 | A FRAUD of staggering audacity has allegedly been perpetrated against General Motors by a Long Island dealer who , prosecutors claim , borrowed $1¾ billion ( £1 billion ) from the car company last year alone to finance vehicles ‘ that never existed ’ . |
| 24 | the athlete has been an important person and model of success for Black youth for a long time . |
| 25 | A former miner , Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement . |
| 26 | There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period . |
| 27 | He has , of course , come into recent prominence through a long association with the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 28 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 29 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 30 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |