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

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1 We met at the north fork of the Sacramento River , the longest river in California .
2 ‘ No. 5 is the new lifting shop , 750ft from end to end , and the longest building in the works .
3 One of the longest trials in English criminal history ended on Aug. 28 , after 107 days in court , when three of the four defendants in the so-called Guinness scandal case were given prison sentences at Southwark Crown Court , following their conviction on 28 charges relating to an illegal share support scheme involving more than £15,000,000 of covert payments .
4 Although British women who qualify do have the longest leave in Europe ( 30 weeks ) , three months of it is unpaid .
5 It maintains the longest contact with the skin when it is most required .
6 Once again , at the very end of this , the longest video of the three , Julian sneaks in some additional MIDI-based information , leading you on to the rather more complex volume three .
7 Then a European Commission report showed that British workers do the LONGEST hours in Europe — for FIFTH RATE pay .
8 Each element of the array could be a fixed length character string , but this would be quite wasteful of memory as this fixed length would have to be enough to fit the longest word in the list .
9 That 's the longest word in the dictionary .
10 That 's the longest word in the dictionary .
11 More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment .
12 The M40 is the longest road in Britain without services on it .
13 The 15th was the longest hole at 580 yards , although not so formidable as the 8th where ‘ fences are utilised as hazards , and there are several trees stumps ’ .
14 In 1912 , according to the Standard , Henley was a rare record — the longest hole in one !
15 Baltusrol is unusual in many respects , most notably that it contains the longest hole in championship golf , the 630 yard 17th .
16 Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest .
17 They make some of the longest journeys on the BR network .
18 Between Haweswater and the rest of the Lake District lies the longest range of hills in the Lake District above 2,000ft .
19 Each format has its own cassette design ( anticlockwise from top ) : VHS is the largest in size and has the longest runtime of up to four hours ( PAL ) ; VHS-C cassettes are more compact but the runtime is reduced to a maximum of 1 ½ hours ( Long Play ) ; Video 8 has the smallest cassettes but runs for up to four hours ( LP ) .
20 It has fallen most heavily and for the longest periods on the most vulnerable members of society , with a particular concentration on the young , and on unskilled or semi-skilled workers .
21 Of large industrial countries , the UK permits one of the longest periods at four months .
22 By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages .
23 The poorest people experience the longest periods of being out of work .
24 A prices and incomes accord , negotiated in 1983 , had ( with several revisions ) covered the whole of the Hawke government 's period in office and was credited by its advocates with having created 300,000 jobs , reduced real unit labour costs and underpinned one of the longest periods of industrial harmony in the country 's history .
25 To give some idea of just how long Tom Weiskopf could hit a ball — and he was the longest driver of his time — Tommy Horton , who was playing with us , needed a driver and 4-iron at the 17th .
26 LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world .
27 Tips from the longest hitter in golf .
28 He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) .
29 You need a strategy designed to provide the money for what many see as ‘ the longest holiday of your life ’ .
30 Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ?
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