Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Only a small part of this difference between the two planets is due to the much longer night on Venus : the main reason is unknown .
2 These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation .
3 The much longer route along the river , which we chose to follow , has neither a railway nor any proper roads .
4 Horses need sufficient good feed , and due to the extremely long length of their intestines they need a lot of roughage — that means good pasture or hay .
5 The difficulties encountered in negotiating all the necessary approvals , particularly the funding , for a scheme which departed from the norm of fair rent housing explain the exceptionally long period of four years that preceded commencement of the building contract .
6 The potentially longer duration of registered designs is the main reason why a design which lies in this overlap should be registered .
7 It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself .
8 McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts .
9 Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s .
10 The unexpectedly long time between initial bleed and randomisation in the surgery and sclerotherapy groups ( 26 and 20 days respectively ) was caused by several factors : ( i ) If rebleeding occurred randomisation was delayed until stability for a minimum of five days and been achieved .
11 This is elicited , after the very long delay of 400 msec , by the visual presentation of a semantically improbable word ( for example , the word ‘ socks ’ in ‘ He spread the warm bread with socks ’ ) .
12 It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent .
13 ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’
14 It was reorganised in 1721 ; and from the 1750s onwards the foreign policies of the monarchy were given greater continuity by a purely personal factor — the very long tenure of the post of Court and State Chancellor , for over forty years from his appointment in 1753 , by Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg .
15 Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 .
16 The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ .
17 I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows .
18 But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom .
19 Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having .
20 After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months .
21 We tend to reckon , perhaps rather arrogantly , that we take a rather longer view of the needs of society , and maybe are as close to getting it right as , as , as , as ministers with their day-by-day short-term preoccupations .
22 The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps .
23 It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it .
24 Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof .
25 It is much cheaper to spend a little longer thinking about them beforehand and getting them right the first time rather than the second , third or fourth time around .
26 It was timeless : other contests set a date and trust to luck that nature will co-operate — the Triple Crown was already distinct in having a much longer window of opportunity than fixtures elsewhere on the Tour .
27 In fact , according to the physics of 1864 , he was correct : it was only the discovery of then unknown sources of nuclear energy which allowed physicists to suppose a much longer life-span for the sun and consequently the earth .
28 These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers .
29 It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time .
30 The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment .
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