Example sentences of "[was/were] long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In selecting the area to be defended , those responsible , presumably military engineers , chose the most convenient and economical line , and where there was a well planned core of gridded streets , this was not too difficult ; the real problem was the case of settlements which were long strips of ribbon development along a road . |
| 2 | And then there were long minutes of crying and embracing and mangled French-English before they even moved indoors . |
| 3 | Twined about the fingers of his free hand were long strands of a woman 's hair . |
| 4 | There were long moments of silence . |
| 5 | There were long streaks of stickiness on the floor to which ash had stuck , glasses with remnants of drink , some with cigarette stubs disintegrating in them , some tipped over in puddles of booze , plates with remnants of food and cigarettes that had smouldered out among them . |
| 6 | Though most of these lived in Zagreb , there were long strings of Serb villages in Krajina and Slavonia . |
| 7 | Between these comparatively shortlived events were long periods of stability when plate tectonics was at work . |
| 8 | Did morphological change in a lineage — the human lineage , for example — take place slowly , like a steady stream , or were long periods of stasis punctuated by bursts of rapid change , like Old Faithful ? |
| 9 | But there were long periods of tension . |
| 10 | But there were long days of gloom and seasickness , as the ship plunged through the 20-foot seas and storms of the Arctic summer . |
| 11 | Inside there were long banks of computers making a low musical noise like a child 's spinning top . |
| 12 | On the outskirts of Tabor there were long rows of multi-storey apartment blocks of an extraordinary ugliness ; many flats looked empty . |
| 13 | Beneath the great silver-encrusted salt bowl were long rows of tables crowded with the retainers , clerks and officials of the great lords . |
| 14 | There were long shots of breasts , shots of breasts of every material from every angle , and against all sorts of background , closer and closer , until the final picture was of nothing but breast , with one dark and much larger-than-natural nipple staring from the centre of the glossy page . |