Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [adv] long " in BNC.

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1 They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period .
2 The report proved that she had known him very well indeed , and for a very long time .
3 property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived .
4 Clearly this is consistent both with a period of about a day and with a very long period .
5 What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity .
6 There was an enormous increase in world industrial capacity as the technological gap between the USA and the major economies was closed ; and over the somewhat longer term , the income elasticity of demand for manufactured goods fell .
7 These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation .
8 Skil also offers the same bodied model , but with a slightly longer cutting edge of 550mm , the 523H .
9 But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks .
10 But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle .
11 It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics .
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