Example sentences of "[noun sg] with a [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incessant monomorphic VT is another common form of proarrhythmia ; this arrhythmia is often the result of class 1c antiarrhythmic agents and usually has a QRS complex with a very long duration so that it appears ‘ sinusoidal ’ in contour . |
| 2 | The clinical presentation of those affected and the course of the disease were characteristic of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ; the other inherited prion diseases so far described generally present as an illness similar to Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome with a much longer duration or as atypical dementia . |
| 3 | The first record of the term ‘ long-firm fraud ’ which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869 , while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history . |
| 4 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
| 5 | A search is now under way to find a medium with a reliably long shelf-life , because even if our present-day sound recordings last for a full century ( which is doubtful ) , our successors will have to copy the whole collection every hundred years or so . |