Example sentences of "[noun sg] long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bordighera , close to the French border has a mile long promenade of beautiful shops , bars and restaurants . |
| 5 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 6 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Already supported to the tune of some $50,000 a year from the proceeds of annual art auction , local rugby earned high praise when Parfrey 's club , The Swilers , donated $2,000 to help cover the costs of a month long exhibit of work by the French master Marc Chagall at Memorial University . |
| 11 | Foreau was a favourite pupil and a life long friend of painter Henri Harpignies ( 1819–1916 ) . |
| 12 | Regular faces that greet you in the banks , shops and offices in Funchal are to be seen on the eight-kilometre long beach of white sand . |
| 13 | Mr Bernard Staite , boss of the consortium who operate the loco , commented : ‘ From November No 4472 will embark on a year long tour of private railways after which she will have a major overhaul . |
| 14 | Two women catechists said the progress was a bi-product of the catechetical courses which they and others organised — a two year long preparation of parents before the baptism of their children , two years before first Holy Communion and two years before Confirmation . |
| 15 | We are now just over half way through our year long programme of fund raising in aid of Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund and the efforts of JM employees past and present and their families to raise money for this most worthwhile cause have been quite fantastic . |
| 16 | In other areas too , it seems that the case for Woodchester as the final pavement of a sequence of elaborations " cuts with a double-edged blade " : at the beginning of the sequence , for example , it is difficult to understand how a twenty-five year long period of development had no other local influence . |
| 17 | In the Federal Republic , the ‘ chancellor-democracy ’ has at its disposal a continually growing government and management expertise which outlasts all parliaments : the twenty year long permanence of this government constellation is modified only by the federal structure . |