Example sentences of "[noun pl] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 2 | It had taken the mice a long time to explore , they had made short excited scurrying runs across the floor , then back to the hutch , nervous , unsure , limiting themselves to a small prescribed space , only later stepping out of it , extending their freedom . |
| 3 | They are often hung between trees or old posts a long way apart , and they are extremely difficult to see . |
| 4 | Your people ripped off the land from the Indians a long time ago . |
| 5 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |
| 6 | Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart , because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together . |
| 7 | But I learnt to control my baser urges a long time ago . |
| 8 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 9 | Sammy gave his fingers a long lick . |
| 10 | Toilets a long distance from the classroom and shared with older children |
| 11 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 12 | mathematicians a long time but it does help . |
| 13 | It would offer 26 places each morning and afternoon , saving some families a long trek to Corporation Road and even further afield . |
| 14 | " Things a long way off . " |
| 15 | But the things a long way off are coming nearer . " |
| 16 | They 've got a fine album and a string of great singles a long way behind them , but the Demonz have yet to have the mass market fawning at their feet , unless you count their brief appearance in the video for ‘ The Bouncer ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ It has taken many geologists a long time to accept plate tectonics ’ , Dr Blake told New Scientist at the survey 's west coast headquarters in Menlo Park , south of San Francisco . |
| 18 | In the Ministry of State Properties a long memorandum of October 1855 brought together information from the provinces concerning the abject condition of state-owned peasants . |
| 19 | The privilege of addressing the House on a Friday morning and of winning the ballot to present a private Member 's motion is , however , something of a mixed blessing for hon. Members like myself who represent constituencies a long way from London . |
| 20 | I 've been in steam stations as well as steam turbines a long time since but with steam you can use it over again . |
| 21 | A third story details a long punishment in which a child — like parts of Berlin to this day — is compelled to stand absolutely still . |
| 22 | Instead , he gave Carter and his advisers a long talk on how he saw the international situation . |
| 23 | Scenes a long way from the serenity of New College , Oxford , where the Howard League for Penal Reform is hosting a conference examining the nature , causes and treatment of violence . |
| 24 | ‘ We were friends a long time ago , during the war . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They were friends a long time ago . |
| 26 | He turns up the Holloway Road , with its rows of pubs for men a long way from home . |
| 27 | To discover that there is no difference in meaning between two forms may , of course , take children a long time . |
| 28 | The handcuffs are cumbersome , perhaps little used , and it takes an askari a long time to adjust them to Tepilit 's thin wrists . |
| 29 | ‘ It grows on the top of very tall trees in wet forests a long way away , and little frogs spend their whole lives in it . |
| 30 | In the spectrum of ammonia ( Fig. 6.17 ) , the band due to ionization from the lone pair orbital shows a long progression in a reduced symmetric deformation frequency . |