Example sentences of "[noun sg] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mayors and councillors from Poole , Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the party to see the Hamble crude oil loading end of the 56-mile long pipeline from the Wytch Farm oilfield . |
| 2 | Several sessions of sports talks , designed to agree upon the formation of a single Korean team for the 1990 Asian Games [ see pp. 36975 ; 37041 ] , were equally unsuccessful and finally broke down on Jan. 29 after the North Korean delegation arrived with a three-metre long picture of the concrete wall to whose alleged existence Kim had referred . |
| 3 | Investigations in the temple of Aphrodite , after whom the city was named , have revealed evidence ofa long history for the cult of the goddess going back to the sixth century ac . |
| 4 | The Gloucester Forest Eyre rolls of 1270 and 1282 record long lists of offences of which the foresters of fee of the Forest of Dean were convicted . |
| 5 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |
| 6 | Professor Marc Martens carried out an hour long op on the 28-years-old AC Milan player in Antwerp today and is worried that the former European player of the year 's career may be over . |
| 7 | Forty consultants ( 20 physicians , 20 surgeons ) were asked to participate in an hour long interview at a mutually convenient time during June 1992 . |
| 8 | Opposite it the passage was separated from the body of the church by a ten foot long grille in delicate wrought iron which gave a view up the nave to the cavernous glitter of the apse and the Lady Chapel on the right . |
| 9 | ‘ Catherine ’ was set in an architectural representation of the Hermitage , complete with imitation window and door frames , cornices and mouldings , matching paint colours , and a twenty foot long photo-mural of the exterior of the Hermitage that greeted visitors at the entrance . |
| 10 | The 86 foot long piece of equipment took five days to be transported from Teesside , requiring an abnormal load permit and police escorts from each of the seven counties , covering its route . |
| 11 | It is not recorded in what mischief the Lord Mayor of York used to indulge , but the Lady Mayoress had a three foot long staff of honour to keep him in order ! |
| 12 | three , three foot long pieces on the bench |
| 13 | The most popular shape was a ten foot long shark in the ‘ AMERICAN HISTORY ’ section . |
| 14 | He later declared that in his experience long intermissions of Parliament were less mischievous than long sessions . |
| 15 | The 2 kilometre long Warriston to Coburg Street walkway forms part of the Water of Leith Walkway , and was officially opened on 15th June 1982 . |
| 16 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 17 | Barry Silk immediately carried on with his preparations , slipping a six inch long knife into its calf holster and tagging the retaining strap . |
| 18 | He was surprised at its strength as it curled sic three inch long body around his index finger , and squeezed . |
| 19 | Another six inch long wound on his stomach is not as deep , but the area is badly swollen and he has another inch deep wound on his front leg where the knife was stuck in . ’ |
| 20 | Bordighera , close to the French border has a mile long promenade of beautiful shops , bars and restaurants . |
| 21 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 22 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 23 | passengers are now taken on a picturesque two and a half mile long trip to Holywell Halt and beyond . |
| 24 | In Chalon thirty boats are here … only twenty two will make the grid … the course is a mile long circuit of the River Soane … looks simple enough … up and down and around but every second every centimetre is a challenge |
| 25 | To get her gold she took up bell ringing , did a lot of swimming , helped the National Trust clear up after the 1988 hurricane , and completed a 50 mile long trek in Glencoe in four days . |
| 26 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 27 | On windswept lonely Chesil Beach — that great ten mile long pile of pebbles which stretches westwards along the Dorset coast from Portland — one can still explore the pillboxes and anti-tank defences which were built in 1940 to resist the threat of invasion . |
| 28 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 29 | I was born into the war torn world of May 1915 in a mile long street of two storey houses strategically located between Wallsend railway station and Wallsend drill hall . |
| 30 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |