Example sentences of "[prep] long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 24 hours after Marfa joined the bonfire of Old Believers that Sunday afternoon — and , after long consideration of the Stravinsky , Shostakovich and Rimsky conclusions to Mussorgsky 's score , Gergiev decided that she should mount the pyre to an orchestral reprise of the Russian melody , very simple and strong — the Kirov orchestra and chorus were reassembling for something completely different : a revival of Tchaikovsky 's Queen of Spades in the production originally conceived by Gergiev 's predecessor at the Kirov , the equally charismatic Yuri Temirkanov . |
| 2 | Frequent leave was recommended ‘ in order to regain sanity of outlook after long periods of loneliness ’ , and it was later added that : ‘ Intellectual geniuses are not required , nor anyone with ‘ nerves ’ or who is likely to become ‘ Masai-astic ’ … i.e. regard themselves as specialists ' . |
| 3 | A number of borough councils agreed to appoint workers with specific lesbian and gay responsibilities and , after long periods of consultation , Camden and Haringey agreed to set up their own lesbian and gay units . |
| 4 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 5 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 6 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 7 | In any case , few men or women had sufficient time or energy after long hours of farm labouring or housework to devote to a garden or allotment . |
| 8 | And Colt , after long days of torture , had recognised in the Colonel someone he could like , someone whose trust he would value . |
| 9 | After long use of permanent hair colourants , which penetrate the hair shaft , hair may be porous , broken and dull . |
| 10 | After long years of living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation , it now looked as if Jack and Minto could afford a place of their own . |
| 11 | Asked what he hoped for Soviet art and culture after long years of political oppression , he said there would be an enormous spiritual benefit , not least because of easier travel and contacts with the rest of the world . |
| 12 | A key feature of the Intifada is that , after long years of trans-frontier or inter-state conflict between largely faceless enemies , it brought the conflict back to where it essentially belongs , to Palestine itself . |
| 13 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 14 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 15 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |
| 16 | But Virginia Woolf 's mature novels consist almost entirely of long passages of introspection by the characters in free indirect style , punctuated by banal conversational remarks and parenthetical reports of trivial actions . |
| 17 | The most important element in Free Church worship has traditionally been the reading of long passages of Holy Scripture and their exposition by a learned minister . |
| 18 | Radio signalling made more than a debut , helping toward the achievement of one of the decade 's miracles , not only the survival but with greater expectation of long life of much of the Highland lines and many more . |
| 19 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 20 | Gold appears either in its parent rock or in placer deposits in which the products of long periods of erosion are concentrated in the alluvium of existing river systems or buried under later sedimentary or igneous rocks . |
| 21 | St'lyan had an organ which acted like a supercharger , so that they were capable of long periods of exertion , and like the Yek they were able to endure remarkable extremes of heat and cold . |
| 22 | In other words , the history of any one part of the earth , like the life of a soldier , consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror . |
| 23 | When portions of present-day Indian pueblos occupied since that time are uncovered , their walls prove to be laid up of long pours of puddled mud . |
| 24 | He was diffident — unlike Ernest who was good at all games — and preoccupied with his country pursuits , but they found him companionable ; himself capable of long hours of solitude , he could always find acquaintances ready to share his company for a time ; but only a few dedicated companions shared his exacting singleminded concentration on these occupations . |
| 25 | Examination of long stretches of numerical data , together with other methods of analysis , have shown that it is indeed varying chaotically ; that is to say , no matter how long the fluctuations continue , one will never find repetition of the detailed pattern . |
| 26 | For example , ‘ polythene ’ is made of long chains of the small molecule called ethylene — polymerized ethylene . |
| 27 | It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice . |
| 28 | The dredging and deepening of long lengths of the existing canal ; |
| 29 | As still the expected attack did not materialise — despite constant intelligence warnings of long columns of troop transports , of construction of the now familiar Stollen on the Left Bank — Petain was heard to remark , ‘ They do n't know their business . ’ |
| 30 | In these respects Frith/Moll is represented in the tradition of the warrior woman and the folk figure of Long Meg of Westminster , both of whom distinguish true morality from false , the proper man from the braggart , and finally submit to the former ( Shepherd , Amazons , esp . |