Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] between " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Dubuffet 's ‘ La Calipette ’ of 1961 , for example , bought at Sotheby 's London in April 1990 for £2,530,000 ( $4,427,500 ) went for a mere FFr6 million ( £714,300 ; $1.12 million ) , its low estimate , after a long duel between two telephone bidders . |
| 2 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 3 | This was the beginning of a long conflict between Conservative Lords and Liberal Commons which lasted until 1911 . |
| 4 | Unlike sales for a manufacturing company , the sale of a life assurance product is only the start of a long relationship between the policyholder and the company . |
| 5 | He claimed that the circumstances of putting the death penalty into effect , in particular the likelihood of a long delay between sentence and execution during which time he would be on death row , would constitute an inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 6 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |
| 7 | This signalled the start of a long association between Biddle and Stratford Mills , the site being adopted as his main base of operation in the Stroud area . |
| 8 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 9 | As Mittwoch ( 1990 : 125 ) points out , however , the fact that historically make vacillated for a long time between to and zero ( cf. the biblical He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ) calls for a deeper explanation of why the bare infinitive won out . |
| 10 | An attenuation of latent inhibition with a long interval between exposure and conditioning has not always been found , even in flavour-aversion learning — Nachman and Jones ( 1974 ) and Siegel ( 1974 ) have found the latent inhibition effect to persist in strength at intervals of much more than 3.5 h . |
| 11 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
| 12 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 13 | Similar , though less extreme , French claims in Venice , where the ambassador demanded that any holder of a " patent de familiarité " signed by him must be considered a member of his household , led to a long breach between the two states in 1710 – 23 and renewed friction in the later 1720s . |
| 14 | Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office . |
| 15 | Businesses that are either very capital intensive or in complex technology , or characterised by a long time-lag between investment and payback , need to have a well-informed head office |