Example sentences of "and [adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too .
2 I did a combined cycle and hiking day ; rode over the hill to Wainuiomata and down to the Rimutaka Forest Park , then tramped through the bush and up a long ridge to the top of Mount McKerrow .
3 As it stands , it is among the best of the poetry of the Oxford Movement , and probably a longer life would have produced the mastery foreseen by Bridges and James .
4 The thunder started as she reached the gate , a great crash and then a long roll of drums .
5 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 .
6 Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track .
7 Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s .
8 Gabriel saw bullets sparkle and flash all around the F2B ; and then a longer streak from the British observer 's rearfiring gun .
9 ‘ The journey to the hacienda is difficult by car and quite a long way .
10 Here we were sorted our into groups according to the types of honours and quite a long wait ensued .
11 New editions will essentially be cumulations and therefore a longer gap will exist between editions .
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