Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 2 | No Hiding Place Sitting containers on pallets or bricks goes a long way toward preventing them from harbouring all kinds of pests under their bottoms . |
| 3 | They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery . |
| 4 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 5 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 6 | Ascending its professional hierarchies takes a long time . |
| 7 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
| 8 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 9 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 10 | The Cages formed a long connected line facing west . |
| 11 | Whichever you choose , you may believe you are responding to current fashion trends , but , in fact , both styles boast a long ancestry . |
| 12 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
| 13 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 14 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
| 15 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 16 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 17 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 18 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 19 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 20 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 21 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 22 | Hardly had her damson-dripping fingers scooped a long white furrow from her thigh to her breast before the blackness would swirl back over it . |
| 23 | I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago . |
| 24 | Just over the mountain in Kentucky is Harlan County , where in 1973 the miners fought a long and bitter strike . |
| 25 | Northern coal miners observed a long Christmas break and from time to time proclaimed " gaudy days " on such occasions as hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 26 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 27 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 28 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 29 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 30 | Crafts underwent a long evolution during the Early Minoan , an incubation that prepared the way for major developments in the Middle Minoan temples and towns . |