Example sentences of "[num] [prep] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 2 | At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords . |
| 3 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 4 | Dustin was one of a long line of candidates being screen-tested in a ten-minute scene with Katharine Ross . |
| 5 | Designed by Sydney Camm , the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable . |
| 6 | One of a long list of commandments , much more extensive than the original ten , that had circumscribed the exploits of Preston 's youth . |
| 7 | They may be hoping to enlist the support of Mrs Thatcher , one of a long list of famous old girls . |
| 8 | It 's one of a long list of endangered species in a 2 hour Central Documentary tonight . |
| 9 | Small-town solicitor takes lid off global scams Audrey Gillan meets the man with an eye for a con and finds the Salvation Army is one of a long list of potential fraud targets |
| 10 | Robert , a man in his late twenties with a long history of occult involvement , grew up in what he now knows to be one of the most haunted farmhouses in Lancashire on the Fylde coast . |
| 11 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 12 | Marina Shipping Ltd v. Laughton ( 1982 ) was one in a long line of cases arising out of attempts by the International Transport Workers Federation ( ITF ) to force ship owners employing cheap labour recruited abroad to pay European standard rates of wages . |
| 13 | But I do n't love him ; I never have — he was just one in a long line of convenient , undemanding escorts I chose because they did n't threaten my independence … ’ |
| 14 | I think the munich songs are just one in a long line of ‘ sick ’ songs . |
| 15 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |