Example sentences of "of a long [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , but just think of a long soak in a hot bath and a large soft bed to sleep on . |
| 2 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 3 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 4 | Tamayo 's insistence on using new materials to construct his prints is very much part of a long tradition in modern art . |
| 5 | Arriving with Prince William in Alice Springs , Australia , at the beginning of a long tour in 1983 |
| 6 | By good luck , they were in the middle of a long stint in London . |
| 7 | We just sat ( there were two of us ) one on either side , outside her door at the end of a long corridor in The Inn On The Park hotel . |
| 8 | It is worth noting that many of the recent habitat changes caused by agriculture in Sussex , and elsewhere , partly result from the reversal of a long decline in farming prosperity between 1875 and 1940 . |
| 9 | In the course of a long interview in his apartment , I found myself quite charmed by his lack of pretension , inarticulate babble sprinkled with the occasionally brilliant observation and odd habit of quoting himself , but I nevertheless remained convinced that Koons ' self-effacing earnestness was a scam . |
| 10 | We had a hell of a long time in the what 's it ? |
| 11 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |