Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years of foraging and running wild , Sadie was given one last chance to start a new life , but the learning process proved to be a long and challenging one |
| 2 | He settled in for what seemed likely to be a long and gloomy winter : there was really nothing he could do except to carry on with his job and perhaps do some unpaid war work . |
| 3 | This is going to be a long and difficult task ; difficult , but in my view , absolutely essential . |
| 4 | One thing is very clear : the road to constitutional change via a Bill of Rights , a written constitution , and an attack on parliamentary sovereignty is likely to be a long and bitter haul . |
| 5 | It proved to be a long and painful process , starting at nine o'clock in the morning and ending at around three in the afternoon . |
| 6 | Not just at the beginning but throughout what may prove to be a long and difficult journey of recovery . |
| 7 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 8 | This is to be a longer and harder fight than any of them have ever witnessed at Sinatra 's or the Rainbow or any one of dozens of warehouses and car parks . |