Example sentences of "on a long [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , this is not the case , the specialist may put you on a long course of low dose antibiotics . |
| 2 | He was getting nearer to himself , travelling on a long loop of bumpy path through the trees . |
| 3 | Lee Harpin ODs on a long weekend of TV football |
| 4 | Hoccleve now apologises for his earlier attitude and welcomes his help , embarking on a long exposition of his case . |
| 5 | Ranald , his shyness fading , started on a long story of honey and ants and his mother 's bed , that set Hector smiling , then chuckling , and at last rolling about with laughter . |
| 6 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 7 | The words arrived on a long feather of smoke . |
| 8 | Start2 builds on a long history of arms accords and summits between Moscow and Washington . |
| 9 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 10 | In a beat-up garage on a long stretch of road ; the number on this phone is unreadable . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One way to reduce mobility is to offer promises of long-term employment , with the prospect of wage increases rising by promotion steps on a long ladder of continuous employment . |
| 13 | He found it difficult to get consultants interested in community care because it was only one on a long list of issues . |
| 14 | Thus , the draftsman should be especially careful before embarking on a long list of matters that fall within a particular covenant . |
| 15 | So , on a long piece of wood , I cut these words : |
| 16 | CHARLES and Diana 's separation sets the seal on a long line of Windsor marital disasters . |