Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] a long " in BNC.

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1 Law as integrity is also a non-skeptical theory of legal rights : it holds that people have as legal rights whatever rights are sponsored by the principles that provide the best justification of legal practice as a whole Pragmatism , on the contrary , denies that people ever have legal rights ; it takes the bracing view that they are never entitled to what would otherwise be worse for the community just because some legislature said so or a long string of judges decided other people were .
2 The boil of misgovernment would have been lanced very quickly and a long festering crisis of confidence in the integrity of the system would have been avoided .
3 The males fell into four categories : nine had their tails cut off and a longer one stuck on ( with quick-acting glue ) , nine had a shorter one stuck on , and , as controls , nine were left intact , and nine had their own tail cut off and then immediately glued back again .
4 The gruel was served up and a long grace was said over a short the gruel disappeared , the boys looked at each other and went over , while his next neighbours nudged him , tired as he was he was desperately hungry and he rest on the table and the master with his hands he said
5 He lunged at her slashing out and a long slash appeared on her leg .
6 A LONG time ago and a long way away , a factory dumped sludge containing organic mercury into the sea .
7 Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours .
8 In general a short-term objective would be eighteen months to three years ahead and a long term objective ten to fifteen years .
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