Example sentences of "[art] long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment . |
| 3 | Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest . |
| 4 | Between Haweswater and the rest of the Lake District lies the longest range of hills in the Lake District above 2,000ft . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You need a strategy designed to provide the money for what many see as ‘ the longest holiday of your life ’ . |
| 8 | Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ? |
| 9 | No-one ever spends much time thinking about the longest holiday of their lifetime — retirement — until a few years before the big day actually arrives . |
| 10 | Er now , on another topic , I will go back to the idea of regulation later , you 'll see that life expectancy is obviously important and er when you 're looking at retirement I mean it 's always been described as the longest holiday of your life and it certainly is that , and life expectancy is rising all the time , these figures have actually been superseded . |
| 11 | The oil has begun to evaporate from the stones , helped by the lashing rain and the longest spell of gale force winds for decades . |
| 12 | Dawn was breaking over Labour 's headquarters in Walworth Road , south London , yesterday as Mr Kinnock stepped on to the balcony , his face ghostly white in the television arc lights and his lips drawn tightly after the longest night of his career , writes Jon Hibbs . |
| 13 | A few days later , at nearly midnight on the longest night of the year , Gabriel Oak could be heard playing his flute on Norcombe Hill . |
| 14 | WordStar has probably got the longest pedigree of any of the current word processing packages , harking back to CP/M and beyond . |
| 15 | The longest novel of William Sharp ( 1855–1905 ) , who also wrote under the name Fiona Macleod , bears the significant title , The Sport of Chance ( 1887 ) . |
| 16 | The longest journey of all is made by the Arctic tern . |
| 17 | British patients wait an average of 36 days to see a specialist , the longest delay of 15 European countries studied , the college found . |
| 18 | The US has the longest tradition of natural gas use of any country in the world . |
| 19 | In London and Liverpool on Friday the final details of the events to be held in May to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic , the longest campaign of the Second World War , will be revealed . |
| 20 | Marking the longest campaign of the Second World War , it starts with a review of the Fleet on 26 May , followed by five days of festivity , including a march by more than 2,000 veterans through Liverpool . |
| 21 | Has proportionately the longest bill of any bird in the region , which together with its zigzag flight and loud harsh ‘ creech ’ when flushed and remarkable ‘ drumming ’ or ‘ bleating ’ display flight , diving at an angle of 45 , are its best field marks . |
| 22 | The bibliographical survey is the longest part of the whole process , and a readily available and up-to-date bibliography can save a good deal of staff time . |
| 23 | The longest part of the conditions was the schedule of requirements for the three parts of the competition : under ‘ Design , No. 1 . , |
| 24 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 25 | In a week 's time it would be the longest day of the year when , in these latitudes , a gunner could accurately sight a twelve-pounder at half-past nine of an evening . |
| 26 | Which is the longest day of the year ? |
| 27 | After my first day I felt really tired when I got home , as that day was the longest day of my life . |
| 28 | Her eyes were wide with sworls of silver and blue brighter than looking at the sun at its zenith in the longest day of summer . |
| 29 | Randy Stonehill will be at the Elmwood Hall on Tuesday June 1 and Larry Norman , fully restored to health , will be at the Assembly Buildings on Monday June 21 — the Longest Day of the Year . |
| 30 | At 700,000 words , it is also the longest work of fiction of this or any other season . |