Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a mercury crisis is not an immediate or indeed a long term worry . |
| 2 | You 've just wasted , you finished that quite a long time ago , and you have |
| 3 | The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too . |
| 4 | I did a combined cycle and hiking day ; rode over the hill to Wainuiomata and down to the Rimutaka Forest Park , then tramped through the bush and up a long ridge to the top of Mount McKerrow . |
| 5 | As it stands , it is among the best of the poetry of the Oxford Movement , and probably a longer life would have produced the mastery foreseen by Bridges and James . |
| 6 | The thunder started as she reached the gate , a great crash and then a long roll of drums . |
| 7 | The Russian soldier was just ahead of me. from the road came the sounds of men shouting and then a long burst of machine-gun fire . |
| 8 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 9 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 10 | Gabriel saw bullets sparkle and flash all around the F2B ; and then a longer streak from the British observer 's rearfiring gun . |
| 11 | ‘ The journey to the hacienda is difficult by car and quite a long way . |
| 12 | Here we were sorted our into groups according to the types of honours and quite a long wait ensued . |
| 13 | New editions will essentially be cumulations and therefore a longer gap will exist between editions . |
| 14 | But still a long way to go . |
| 15 | They were now running alongside the wall , but still a long way from the crossing stile . |
| 16 | not only that , but also a long sheath — |
| 17 | : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system . |