Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even bottom-dwelling molluscs can be dispersed widely over long distances , and are quick to colonize vacant sites that appear in the ocean ( new volcanic islands like Surtsey , for example ) . |
| 2 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 3 | She could do without large conscript armies to defend land frontiers and needed long-service troops who could be employed overseas for long periods . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , much traditional language teaching , in its zeal for practising verb tenses and using new vocabulary , has concentrated exclusively on longer forms ( Answer with a full sentence please . ! ) |
| 5 | Meals , for example , are eaten communally at long tables and comprise simple but excellent fare , created almost entirely from estate produce . |
| 6 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 7 | By 1679 it was estimated that such payments were six or seven years in arrears ; and in the 1690s English diplomats were still very often paid merely in Exchequer tallies which could be cashed only after long delay and at ruinous discounts to their face value . |
| 8 | More funds were required generally for longer opening hours ; more paid staff was wanted as was more training . |
| 9 | The regard was held again after long discontinuance : presentments were enrolled , as in medieval times , for production at the Forest Eyre . |