Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California , and is estimated at £150,000 . |
| 2 | The new building was opened with great fanfare in January 1895 , and the grateful deaf members appointed William Agnew a director , a position he retained until his death after a long illness in 1914 . |
| 3 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 4 | After a long while in which she heard nothing but the rasp of charcoal on canvas and the faint distant booming of the sea , he said , ‘ Talk if you want to . |
| 5 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 6 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 7 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 8 | After a long slog in the 1980s to reach the top flight of the Championship , last season 's relegation was nothing short of disastrous for the club and Stedman feels that it is an indictment of Farnham that promising young players in the area , whom the town club would hope to recruit , are instead going to Guildford , attracted by division one status . |
| 9 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 10 | We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar . |
| 11 | Now near retirement after a long career in product development , Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour . |
| 12 | After a long career in public service , Monnet had been appointed as head of the French Planning Commission . |
| 13 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 14 | JE : Though this role was written for you , in a sense , did you find it difficult having to sing Britten after a long career in the standard repertoire ? |
| 15 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 16 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 17 | After a long game in the kitchen which ended in a draw , they went upstairs and made love . |
| 18 | ‘ I know , but just think of a long soak in a hot bath and a large soft bed to sleep on . |
| 19 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 20 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 21 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
| 22 | Arriving with Prince William in Alice Springs , Australia , at the beginning of a long tour in 1983 |
| 23 | By good luck , they were in the middle of a long stint in London . |
| 24 | We just sat ( there were two of us ) one on either side , outside her door at the end of a long corridor in The Inn On The Park hotel . |
| 25 | It is worth noting that many of the recent habitat changes caused by agriculture in Sussex , and elsewhere , partly result from the reversal of a long decline in farming prosperity between 1875 and 1940 . |
| 26 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 27 | We had a hell of a long time in the what 's it ? |
| 28 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |
| 29 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
| 30 | The front page was a picture of the Asian girl below a long headline in lower-case type . |