Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 2 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 3 | In preparation for a long stay , I had several suitcases , a packing case , a cabin trunk , my portable gramophone and records , all my medical equipment . |
| 4 | On top of that , if the FA see the Davis case as a precedent , they could be without their England striker for a long spell , while Wright could find his international claims weakened . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 6 | Their new gas plants will not be on stream for several years ; they need a secure , well-priced coal contract for a long time to come . |
| 7 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 8 | He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time . |
| 9 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
| 10 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 11 | A former miner , Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement . |
| 12 | Mr Patten is looking at plans for a longer school day after a Government probe into 15,000 schools in England found youngsters are not getting enough tuition . |
| 13 | You 'll be getting no champagne for a long , long time . |
| 14 | Both government and local authorities have failed to put money into capital projects for a long long time . |
| 15 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 16 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 17 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 18 | Erm right the open show fifty nine ninety five for the hire of the hall , much the same as last year , it 's keeping pretty well down er , it 's , we paid fifty three eighty last year , but I think because little bit for a longer time this year . |
| 19 | May the Town Crier remain in the very capable hands of the college students and lecturers for a long time to come . |
| 20 | We discuss the abortion struggle for a long time . |
| 21 | Been my major struggle for a long time now . |
| 22 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
| 23 | We had a stable rate base for a long time and we saw no reason to doubt that there was anything untoward in the ratings that had been made within our borough . |
| 24 | I 've been on your trail for a long , long time . ’ |
| 25 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 26 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 27 | They held each other 's look for a long five seconds . |
| 28 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 29 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
| 30 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |