Example sentences of "and [prep] a long [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one there that was empty and for a long long while . |
| 2 | Its surface bears some evidence for an early period of crater erasure , and for a long subsequent period of slight internal contraction , presumably the result of cooling . |
| 3 | It can be hard work being a prima dogga , and after a long book-signing session there 's nothing Dido likes more than going fishing in the River Kennet . |
| 4 | We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen . |
| 5 | Maggie now beckoned him towards her , and some what reluctantly he followed her along a short passage and into a long sun-lit kitchen , where a woman was standing at a wooden table mixing some ingredients in a bowl . |
| 6 | One morning Jamie conducted him down two flights of stairs and into a long high apartment , like a baronial hall . |
| 7 | Needles were stored in a two-pound Robertson 's jam jar ; and in a long glass-topped case was a selection of knives , scalpels , forceps , scissors and syringes . |