Example sentences of "[noun sg] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 2 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 3 | Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally . |
| 4 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 5 | One thing , one thing about it , it 's crossed my mind a long time ago is er the idea of erm in the half hour or whatever twenty minutes before a concert , doing er concert programme notes |
| 6 | Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 8 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 9 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 10 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 11 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
| 12 | In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges , points , and crossings had been blown up in military action . |
| 13 | All you had to do was wear a long raincoat and a glum expression — the rest was simply implied . |
| 14 | Discouraged and exhausted by all the struggles of orthodox opera production Brook abandoned the opera house circuit a long time ago but first with Carmen and now Pelleas he has reached into the heart of operas , purifying them without diminishing them . |
| 15 | Discouraged and exhausted by all the struggles of orthodox opera production , Brook abandoned the opera house circuit a long time ago but first with Carmen and now Pelleas he has reached into the heart of operas , purifying without diminishing them . |
| 16 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 17 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 18 | Her granny , who had been a Brownie Guider a long time ago , had told her about how a Brownie smiles instead of crying when in trouble . |
| 19 | These cells have their origin a long distance from the sex organs . |
| 20 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
| 21 | We have also from his pen a long Dialogue with Trypho the Jew . |
| 22 | She waited on the landing a long time , hating the awful quietness and longing for them to start shouting again so that she would know everything was all right . |
| 23 | Such judgements , however , are best made as close to the action as possible rather than on a theoretical basis a long way away . |
| 24 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 25 | No one was certain whether or not this would have the desired effect but Party Politics produced a tremendous performance to win the Greenall Chase at Haydock , taking the lead a long way out and running on strongly . |
| 26 | There the quotidian became immensely and unembarrassedly real : ‘ At the fish and chip shop a long queue . |
| 27 | In retrospect then it is the final remark in that poignant description of Athman by the river which is the most telling : ‘ tor a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair ’ . |
| 28 | In the pre-1965 period a long run of higher than average precipitation allowed the spread northward of rain-fed cultivation , dominated by millet , and at the same time the increased populations placed more pressure on the vegetation for fuelwood . |
| 29 | Anyway , a friend told me that there was a band a long time ago , in the '60s , that had the same name . |
| 30 | I mean , I know Gerald went first , and I know he 's been in the business a long while , but he actually managed to say it all in about three sentences . |