Example sentences of "a long burst of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly there was a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 2 | The first two fell to the ground and the third figure disappeared into the hedgerow , followed by a long burst of fire from Taff 's Bren . |
| 3 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |
| 4 | My thoughts were interrupted by several loud bangs from very close by , then two flares lit the sky , hanging eerily just above the trees , then drifting out of sight a short distance away , followed by a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 5 | A long burst of fire from a machine-gun shatters the dawn and , before the echoes die away down the valleys , the attack is under way . |
| 6 | The thought had barely come and gone , and I was in the act of reaching out to replace the whisky bottle , when a long burst of electric-blue light from the aperture showed me something that froze me in mid-reach . |
| 7 | The Russian soldier was just ahead of me. from the road came the sounds of men shouting and then a long burst of machine-gun fire . |