Example sentences of "[v-ing] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 2 | ‘ You horrid little toad , ’ his sister yelled after him in exasperation , foreseeing a long night of sewing ahead of her . |
| 3 | The basic technique is called run length coding and works by replacing a long run of unchanging data by the shortest possible code . |
| 4 | Following a serious collision at the Pleasure Beach in 1980 , 705 was scrapped , but happily 706 has been restored for the 1985 Centenary , reviving a long tradition of open toppers on the Promenade . |
| 5 | Progress came instead from testing a long sequence of compounds leading from the most potent sulphonamides to pyrimidines , a family of moderately complex organic compounds some of which are constituents of nucleic acids ( Chapter II ) , and later to guanidines . |
| 6 | The 1983 election , although a significant Conservative success , was not a realigning one , nor one necessarily presaging a long spell of Conservative rule . |
| 7 | Leading a long convoy of these , Keith and Ramsay rode to the ford and over , under the Knight Marischal 's great banner , with a mounted escort , trumpets blowing , to draw maximum attention . |
| 8 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's a neat little boat , ’ she commented coolly , accepting a long glass of orange juice and fizzy mineral water . |
| 10 | Transfer the stitches from needles 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 to the back bed and , using a long length of yarn , cast off the four back stitches . |
| 11 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 12 | Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth . |
| 13 | The children sit in a circle holding a long piece of string , on which is tied a ring . |
| 14 | This is the practice of buying a long line of stock from one seller and then selling the shares through the market . |
| 15 | The 1981 Regulations have been much amended and extended so that now each school must provide a School Prospectus containing a long list of prescribed information , including information about the curriculum , qualifications obtainable and careers education , and an Annual Report , including updates to the prospectus and dates and times of the school term . |
| 16 | These are excellent if you are considering a long stay of two or three months . |
| 17 | The department is also strong in the history of philosophy , having a long tradition of scholarship in Ancient Philosophy , the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment , and in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy . |
| 18 | The Coal Board decided to change the work organisation in order to introduce new coal-cutting equipment capable of cutting a long stretch of wall at a time . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Ven replied , and taking a long pull of breath , ‘ I do n't seem to be doing this very well , ’ he stated , ‘ but at least we 're talking — which makes it less difficult than I thought it was going to be . ’ |
| 20 | Taking a long piece of string , she dragged it to and fro through the mud , heaping it up and turning that into men . |
| 21 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 22 | This made it easy for the doctor to see at a glance how Vincent 's temperature had changed up or down , since the operation without studying a long list of figures . |
| 23 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 24 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 25 | A quarter of an hour after starting he was bypassing Canterbury and six minutes later he was on the M2 , leaving a long plume of spray behind him . |
| 26 | The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene . |
| 27 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 28 | This is a modern , bustling resort featuring a long sweep of golden sand mottled with stripes of dark volcanic dust . |
| 29 | Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million . |