Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it .
5 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 .
6 It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units .
7 He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time .
8 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 .
9 Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me .
10 You 'll be getting no champagne for a long , long time .
11 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 .
12 They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time .
13 there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while .
14 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 .
15 We discuss the abortion struggle for a long time .
16 Been my major struggle for a long time now .
17 But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time .
18 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 .
19 I 've been on your trail for a long , long time . ’
20 And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save .
21 They held each other 's look for a long five seconds .
22 A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document .
23 The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time .
24 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 .
25 Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time .
26 He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time .
27 They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house .
28 Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it .
29 As I say this this fellow the last twenty minutes are the best I 've seen Leicester City play for a long long time .
30 She 's got our number all right an' we 'll 'ave to give this place a miss for a long time after this .
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