Example sentences of "[adv] after a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 2 | Perhaps after a long and unpleasant time in various German prison camps in Bavaria , Czechoslovakia and Brunswick , where the prisoners had been subjected to very severe bombing raids in which a number of them were killed , he had lost some of his characteristically boyish expression , but his sense of humour had n't suffered . |
| 3 | These important nuances are often recognised only after a long and intimate experience of the couple under study . |
| 4 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 5 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 6 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 7 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 8 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 9 | The final allied victory against Japan came only after a long and costly struggle . |
| 10 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 11 | The relationship between birth interval and frequency of still births seems to resemble " U " or " J " shaped curves , inasmuch as the still birth ratio is very high if the preceding birth interval is short ( less than a year ) and decreases after one completed year up to a five year interval but , if the next birth follows only after a longer interval , the chance that it will result in a stillborn baby increases again . |
| 12 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 13 | Before he 'd even put the head down after a long flight to Glasgow , Lindi was expressing his confidence about Monday 's outcome . |
| 14 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 15 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 16 | It occurs word medially between two short vowels , between a long and short vowel , or word finally after a long vowel . |
| 17 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 18 | The watching Masai begin to walk away after a long , contemplative moment . |
| 19 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 20 | These dilemmas may even present themselves shortly after a long policy discussion when both parties have agreed on the proper procedure . |
| 21 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 22 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 23 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 24 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 25 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 26 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 27 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 28 | Notts went ahead when Mike Simpson volleyed home after a long throw-in . |
| 29 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 30 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |