Example sentences of "a long stretch of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road leading through the row of cottages extended into a long stretch of open country with lanes leading off it . |
| 2 | In a beat-up garage on a long stretch of road ; the number on this phone is unreadable . ’ |
| 3 | It was just us , on a long stretch of sand , with the dark sea ahead of us — a landscape which might go on into infinity , as far as we could tell . |
| 4 | In a long stretch of vulnerable Asian land between Vietnam and Japan they are typhoons — the Chinese words for ‘ big wind ’ ; in the Philippines , which suffer each summer from the most dreadful storms , they are baguios ; on the west costs of Mexico and Central America , cordonazos ; and in north-western Australia , willy-willies . |
| 5 | Steps to the left lead up to a long stretch of path which continues parallel to the road . |
| 6 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 7 | With the conquest of Normandy , however , Philip-Augustus gained control of a long stretch of coastline opposite England , from which he could also ‘ oversee ’ Brittany , while access from the mouth of the Seine gave him a means of developing trade and a wider market . |
| 8 | This well known resort hotel is located directly on the superb Beau Vallon Bay , a long stretch of fine , white sandy beach . |
| 9 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 12 | We dropped down from the Spa to a long stretch of empty beach and the sergeant shouted " " Right , sprint to those rocks ! |
| 13 | It was an almost unbelievable sight in this desolate landscape , a long stretch of vivid blue water fringed by green reedbeds . |
| 14 | This " touched Booth more deeply than any lavish endowment " but lie was loathe for his officer to deny himself for such a long stretch of time . |
| 15 | In Andalusia , General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano occupied Seville on 18 July , while General Enrique Varela took the port of Cadiz and a long stretch of coast eastwards as far as Algeciras , close to Gibraltar . |
| 16 | It 's it 's a long stretch of time the troops need pinning down with it that 's all I 'm saying . |
| 17 | He says it 's a long stretch of road and you need at least two service areas . |