Example sentences of "[adv] and [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe we are doing our bit in this respect , successfully and over a long period , by land . ’ |
| 2 | He looked at the photo , and then he looked at Carl carefully and for a long time . |
| 3 | He spoke as though they knew each other well and over a long period . |
| 4 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 5 | In winter that walk back home must have been hell : sleet , rain , snow and ice blowing across the moss , wet clothes clinging to chilled skin and ahead and behind a long line of miners ' lanterns " bobbing like glowworms in the dark " . |