Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anticoagulant drugs safe enough for long term use to help prevent heart disease are under development by almost every drug company , Huber said . |
| 2 | Hospitality : More beds are needed especially to accommodate the German team on Thursday , Friday and Saturday nights , and a few for Friday night only for long distance Medau performers — please ask in your classes ( ten mile radius from Croydon or along the route from Dover preferred ) and send offers to . |
| 3 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 4 | Lesley-Jane , perhaps from long experience of having her mother going on about her or perhaps just from exhaustion , did not seem to be listening . |
| 5 | Although a couple of David Platt 's efforts have derived from shots on the edge of the penalty area , as indeed did Paul Merson 's debut goal in Prague , the general rule is that England are not scoring enough from long range . |
| 6 | Customer loyalty depends very much on long term customer satisfaction and belief that the school is providing quality education . |
| 7 | Friedman 's views are based essentially on the quantity theory relationship and depend crucially on statistical evidence which purports to show that velocity is relatively stable and predictable especially over long time periods . |
| 8 | An earlier study using the same type of stimulus material ( Christianson , 1984 ) showed impaired recall of central events in the neutral condition , but only at long retention intervals ( 2 weeks rather than 12 minutes ) and no significant difference between conditions on the 4AFC recognition test for peripheral details . |
| 9 | Summer gales were rarely of long duration in our experience , and if it blew really hard we used to snug down in the lee of one of the many anchorages and take to the hills for a change . |
| 10 | Hypokalaemia , as his selection of references shows , occurs after acute single overdosage of theophylline , but not during long term overdosage . |
| 11 | Under his leadership northern Europe became more settled and a period of building activity was begun , though it was not of long duration . |
| 12 | Those who remain , generally with long service , are a dedicated lot , proud of their unique service . |
| 13 | So it was pretty clear to the DUC that people from outside with long hair and beards were not going to advance the cause of the campaign . |
| 14 | Experiments show that many tolerate a wide range of light conditions , but a few high polar species perform best in long day regimes , or refuse to flower in anything less than a 22–24-hour day . |
| 15 | Put three drops in your palms ( more for long hair ) and smooth through hair to restore tired locks . |
| 16 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 17 | It would only be if somebody was off on long term sickness or |
| 18 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 19 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 20 | We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits . |
| 21 | All this hippy chic is not terribly exotic for British men who grew up with long hair , earth mothers and hipster jeans . |
| 22 | KEITH Pringle had split up with long time girlfriend Leanne Rees on several occasions . |
| 23 | Harry nodded and allowed himself to be led up into Long Acre . |
| 24 | It is important both in long term or " corporate " ( company wide ) planning , and in the budgetary planning and control process which is carried out on an annual basis . |
| 25 | Joe was up in Long Field with Oz and the cabbage plants , expecting Jinny to join him . |
| 26 | Expo '92 is forecast to exceed all records as the biggest exhibition of its kind , but the important question is whether it will live up to long term expectations . |
| 27 | They noticed that background radiation in the laboratory appeared to rise by up to 50 per cent while the experiment was running but they had no means of knowing whether or not this had anything to do with the experiment as the natural background radiation from cosmic rays can vary substantially during long time periods . |
| 28 | He was out for long term gains . |
| 29 | and came out of Long Beach we 'll miss it |
| 30 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |