Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 It is a brick building with a long nave which has simple , rectangular plan piers , without capitals , supporting a pointed arched arcade .
2 The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods .
3 When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down .
4 Slung across his back were two fishing rods in a long brown sheath and strapped to a bracket behind his seat was the basket from the picnic .
5 If that 's the case , then we could argue , an and will do , that now is a good time to borrow on a fixed term basis over a long period .
6 Such questions occupied developmental research workers for a long while , and their results were eventually pulled together in a number of reviews , such as that by Bettye Caldwell .
7 Forcing his way through a gap in a hedge , he caught his hand on a thorn and saw beads of blood ooze from a long scratch .
8 ( iv ) Draw up a small amount of the cell suspension into a long form Pasteur pipette and allow one drop ( -0.02 nil ) to hang from its tip .
9 Instead a meeting was proposed by the Utah University President Chase Peterson in a long phone call with the Provost of Brigham Young University during Friday 3 March .
10 I also remember how the knocker-up went around the streets banging at bedroom windows with a long stick to wake the occupants in time to get to work .
11 Have you worked in B M K in a long while ?
12 Then Chris Holmes broke a period of Basingstoke pressure with a long break from the 22 .
13 A NEW book marking the silver jubilee of a long school is to be launched in the city next week .
14 What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times .
15 If you have had a weight problem for a long time , do not expect a miracle in a few weeks .
16 The study contributes towards a comprehensive view of the working of the labour market over a long period and of the sources of shocks disturbing the economy .
17 On top of that , if the FA see the Davis case as a precedent , they could be without their England striker for a long spell , while Wright could find his international claims weakened .
18 They were towing a desert manta on a long black line .
19 He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time .
20 In general , the mountain areas of the Auvergne experience a much colder winter climate with a long period of Permanent snow .
21 My whole family background has been responsible , in a way , for , by virtue of the example of my parents , for my distress at witnessing prejudice , whether it be colour , or religious , or whatever , and intolerance , and so on , and I 've wanted to do a subject about South Africa for a long time , and this was enhanced erm obviously when I made Ghandi because , as you know , the first twenty odd years of Ghandi 's life
22 And yet it is an awkward situation for it is certain the reception of Claudio Parmiggiani 's work will for a long time be affected by the great deal of media attention given to Joseph Kosuth 's work .
23 The Red Sea came into view in the late afternoon , an intense blue that washed along the flat desert shore in a long line of white .
24 I 'd hoped she 'd just pick me up and we 'd be on our way , but Ash had n't seen Aunt Ilsa for a long time and insisted on exchanging more than just pleasantries with her and Mr G.
25 Musette Light cotton bag with a long strap , used for the food and drink handed up at feeding stations .
26 He put several grenades in the coat pocket , and a machine gun into a long pocket inside the coat .
27 In addition , income security for a long period decreases the risks associated with the investment .
28 We had a group photograph with a long time-exposure and a friend of mine , a dear friend , ran from one end of the back line to the other and had his picture twice on the same photograph .
29 So I 've done er community work for a long time .
30 Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories .
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