Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] a long " in BNC.

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1 US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses .
2 This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period .
3 Sometimes this happens over a long period , as a person finds himself constrained to attend a Christian place of worship , or drawn to read the Christian scriptures .
4 Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time .
5 Released from duty and put on the case , Renko builds up a long list of suspects , Zita having slept with most of the crew and possibly some of the flatfish .
6 Unlike groups in laboratory studies , the work group is not created and then disbanded permanently ; it often survives over a long period of time .
7 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
8 This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy .
9 She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’
10 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
11 The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ .
12 For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way .
13 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
14 The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way .
15 This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 .
16 ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’
17 Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think .
18 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
19 Goes back a long way I 'm afraid .
20 I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time .
21 so she goes back a long way .
22 Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way .
23 Such a rod casts long and accurately ; picks up a long line without maniacal exertion , and remains soft enough in the tip to retain the necessary shock-absorber effect .
24 He lets out a long , marvellously theatrical sigh .
25 JOHN BISHOP rounds up a long , eventful season in South Africa
26 One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period .
27 This task of considering key moments can be a very valuable way of recapping from one session to the next when the drama extends over a long period , as it usually does once it becomes part of a project or topic work .
28 Where production extends over a long period as in construction industries and shipbuilding , measurement of work in progress has to be achieved by other means .
29 If it continues over a long period it could even lead to stunted growth .
30 His torment is that he is forced to face the etched face of a Daemonette carved into the wall opposite , which flicks out a long serrated fleshy tongue which rips into the man 's neck and chest .
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