Example sentences of "out [prep] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record .
2 His morning swims at the Queen Mother Leisure Centre in Victoria are a vital part of his training which he describes as ‘ a treat for my body after the running ’ and , like many other runners , he will go out for a long run on a Sunday .
3 Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking .
4 It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness .
5 It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway .
6 Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector .
7 For it was born out of a long histtory of protest .
8 ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe .
9 When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side .
10 Outside , Mitch let his breath out in a long sigh of relief .
11 Gazzer let his breath out in a long exhalation of relief .
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