Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I also know that you spent a summer on rather a long walk . |
| 2 | Lastly lastly a longer question where the answer would have to be two and three sentences erm yes but do n't tell everybody . |
| 3 | being the Chief Clerk and then turned left and down quite a long corridor , which in those days was erm shorned up with four by four timber posts because er , presumably they thought if the County Hall got a direct hit the ceiling might come down |
| 4 | So quite a long job , |
| 5 | It was not only a long job , but a painful one for Deborah , the backs of whose hands were pricked , scored and smeared with blood before she succeeded in freeing the lamb altogether . |
| 6 | Changed attitudes , rising living standards , and more effective health care have together resulted in not only a longer , but a fuller life expectancy . |
| 7 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 8 | I mean it 's not just the long it 's long squared equals medium squared plus short the the medium and the short sort of would add up to give the long . |
| 9 | One explanation might be that five years is still not a long enough lead time . |
| 10 | Once more the long gleaming blades clanged together , the clear bell-like notes of their joyous battle song sounding loud in the high-walled arena of death . |
| 11 | She was still quite a long way from Yatton Farm , but the windmill on its hillock could be clearly seen from the farm . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's still quite a long way off , ’ said Masklin . |
| 13 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 14 | Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans . |
| 15 | I am sure that all hon. Members will welcome that increase , although there is clearly still a long way to go to reflect the fact that women constitute 51 per cent . |
| 16 | She 's been up there a long time has n't she ? |
| 17 | Marie , on her way back up the long flight of steps from the prom , watched them laughing together . |
| 18 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 19 | Fly ran the Hackney branch of a chainstore opticians and we went back quite a long way together as OADFs go . |
| 20 | Voices echoed flatly down the long hall . |
| 21 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 22 | I remember particularly well a long discussion we had on a bright sunny day in Austria in 1983 , on the subject of the relative importance of car and driver . |
| 23 | right quite a long way west |
| 24 | I would have thought that we might go on holiday , well going on quite a long holiday , we 're going on holiday after the project video 's completed , so it 'll be Christmas for me |
| 25 | No that 's not I just thought to change a wash , cos I think they 've been on there rather a long time . |
| 26 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 27 | We became quite a regular there , as a matter of fact , nine consecutive mornings , including two Sundays , past the battlements , through gardens , then down the long loot-crammed passages , with glass cases full of baubles and beauties , and oblongs of oils and tapestries and embroidered maps reeling past our sight — to the waiting room . |
| 28 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 29 | With the price of oil falling , then probably a long way . |
| 30 | She 's been up there quite a long time has n't she ? |