Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of a long term study of child development these workers assessed 954 seven-year-olds of an original sample of 1037 children born between 1 April , 1972 and 31 March , 1973 in the city of Dunedin , New Zealand . |
| 2 | Those parts of the drying system recently installed will be retained with the new sections being added as part of a long term policy of improvements . |
| 3 | Gone are the days when you were likely to be alone on the rim path , but if the five miles escarpment is included as part of a longer circuit of the vast moorland , walkers seeking solitude will find their fair share — and a good test of their navigation skills . |
| 4 | My childhood was the place where , for my mother , the fairy tales failed , and through the glass of that childhood I now see that failure as part of a longer and more enduring one . |
| 5 | She felt work with women was indispensable , not only for the trade union movement but as part of a longer educational process which would enable women to participate fully after the triumph of the FDR-FMLN . |
| 6 | as part of a longer term review of legal aid policy , to pay modest sums to firms who allow their trainees and young solicitors to undertake the more straightforward cases now undertaken on legal aid . |
| 7 | He had requested these resignations as part of a longer term plan to reduce the number of ministries to nine and , in the short term , to provide evidence that the government was intent on achieving greater efficiency . |
| 8 | The pronunciation may have been stored before , but as part of a longer word ( e.g. tea as part of teacher ) . |
| 9 | Premises at East Tullos in Aberdeen are being extended and upgraded at a cost of £0 5 million in support of a long term logistics partnering contract awarded by Enterprise Oil during the year . |
| 10 | If I go out in search of a long white zip , I end up having to make do with a short blue one . |
| 11 | In economic life , in spite of a long series of efforts , little was achieved . |
| 12 | This was in spite of a longer mean time till exclusion or end of follow up for the adenoidectomy cases . |
| 13 | Lawrence Stone , for instance , in his massive book , The Family , Sex and Marriage , speaks in terms of a long development towards modern sexual ‘ permissiveness ’ from the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | Further , under the British Code of Advertising Practice , no advertisement to the lay public is allowed in respect of a long list of diseases and conditions , including cataracts , glaucoma , kidney disease VD , tuberculosis , any heart disease , hypertension , diabetes , cancer , epilepsy and so on . |
| 15 | At the end of a roofless tunnel they found themselves standing in front of a long , high wooden counter . |
| 16 | Slains may be approached in two ways : comfortably by means of a long quiet climbing lane from the trees on the edge of Cruden , or more adventurously , once alighted from the bus on the upper road , between stone walls , along that wide lane of sticky brown clay , perilously full of holes . |
| 17 | Nestling on the southern slopes of the Downs , this 16th-century house ( once two cottages ) is reached by way of a long drive . |