Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former miner , Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement . |
| 2 | Mr Patten is looking at plans for a longer school day after a Government probe into 15,000 schools in England found youngsters are not getting enough tuition . |
| 3 | Both government and local authorities have failed to put money into capital projects for a long long time . |
| 4 | May the Town Crier remain in the very capable hands of the college students and lecturers for a long time to come . |
| 5 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
| 6 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 7 | The maid stared into his eyes for a long moment and then suddenly turned away . |
| 8 | Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze . |
| 9 | But just for once Jake refrained from attacking her , though he held her eyes for a long , dangerous moment . |
| 10 | She met his eyes for a long while , then nodded . |
| 11 | He fondled her between her long legs for a long time , and she remained still for him . |
| 12 | Following the pre-meiotic 5-phase interval , the cells proceed as spermatocytes through a long meiotic prophase and then through the two cell divisions leading to the production of haploid gametes . |
| 13 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Watson and Paul Cocker had had the offences hanging over their heads for a long time , adding : ‘ It was Darren Cocker 's godfather who was the tragic victim of crime . ’ |
| 14 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 15 | I was busy trying to set a grammar school on a new course , meeting the heads of the other secondary schools for a long and sticky evening in the north Oxfordshire village of Adderbury , and experiencing some of the excitements and discomforts involved in shuffling and reorganization : it was the year in which C. P. Snow published his Corridors of Power . |
| 16 | Also within the /a/ system , however , there is a high incidence of back varieties of /a/ : in BV , this vowel is realized in certain following consonantal environments as a long , back vowel , which is in many contexts virtually identical to RP ( as in RP dance , bath ) ; on a superficial view we may therefore be tempted to believe that speakers are adopting this external norm . |
| 17 | When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down . |
| 18 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 19 | Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot . |
| 20 | ‘ Out of the stuff I 've heard , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ by The Frank & Walters is one of the most moving songs in a long time . |
| 21 | Slung across his back were two fishing rods in a long brown sheath and strapped to a bracket behind his seat was the basket from the picnic . |
| 22 | The object of the game , to construct small words from a long word , is made more interesting by the use of graphics . |
| 23 | Requesting the sales girl to make up the bill , he 'd proceeded to lower his dark head , his arms closing about her like steel bands as he 'd possessed Laura 's lips in a long , slow and devastating kiss . |
| 24 | ‘ No — I definitely am not ! ’ she sighed happily , unable to say any more as his mouth possessed her lips in a long , slow , lingering kiss . |
| 25 | And hearing these voices from a long , long way away . |
| 26 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 27 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 28 | The Isle of Wight cable does without because it transmits monomode signals on a long wavelength ( 1300 nm ) . |
| 29 | Monomode cables carry light signals on a longer wavelength , and will give Mercury the chance to carry four times as much data as is possible on multimode , and over a greater distance . |
| 30 | One way to reduce mobility is to offer promises of long-term employment , with the prospect of wage increases rising by promotion steps on a long ladder of continuous employment . |