Example sentences of "a [adv] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |
| 2 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 3 | But before they emerge as adults they have a rather longer incarnation as larvae walking about the river bottom . |
| 4 | Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having . |
| 5 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 6 | We tend to reckon , perhaps rather arrogantly , that we take a rather longer view of the needs of society , and maybe are as close to getting it right as , as , as , as ministers with their day-by-day short-term preoccupations . |
| 7 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 8 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 9 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 10 | It is much cheaper to spend a little longer thinking about them beforehand and getting them right the first time rather than the second , third or fourth time around . |
| 11 | It was timeless : other contests set a date and trust to luck that nature will co-operate — the Triple Crown was already distinct in having a much longer window of opportunity than fixtures elsewhere on the Tour . |
| 12 | In fact , according to the physics of 1864 , he was correct : it was only the discovery of then unknown sources of nuclear energy which allowed physicists to suppose a much longer life-span for the sun and consequently the earth . |
| 13 | These new strains have been bred to combine the varied colours , forms and scents of old roses with a much longer season of flowers . |
| 14 | It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time . |
| 15 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 16 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 17 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 18 | The idea of entitlement probably represents an attempt , during a much longer debate about the need for a ‘ national ’ curriculum , to bring into focus the child 's individual needs and rights : it is needed to counterbalance any propensity towards the state 's collective needs — totalitarianism if you will — which a move towards a nationally prescribed curriculum might bring with it . |
| 19 | The data reported by Kovacs in section 12.9 imply that the observed T g would decrease further if a sufficiently long time for measurement was allowed . |
| 20 | If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow . |
| 21 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 22 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 23 | It was a strenuously long day for the 26-year-old psychiatrist 's daughter from Kilkenny , who had survived a two-down-with-six-to-play crisis before lunch to beat Ulster 's gallant little Michelle McGreevy on the 17th . |
| 24 | If nothing else , it has cast a mighty long shadow down the years . |
| 25 | If this involves a fairly long distance through cold parts of the house , you may have to buy metal dish covers , plate warmers and Thermos flasks to keep the food and drinks warm . |
| 26 | Phases A ( which must be shorter ) and C are the ‘ roads and tracks ’ , a fairly long distance to be ridden at a speed of 220 metres per minute , ( a good trot , on average ) . |
| 27 | Fortunately we had a doctor in our congregation who er was s had some knowledge of psychiatry and he had a fairly long session with him , just the two of them . |
| 28 | On the next cast I touch-leger again , only with a fairly long loop of line pulled out from between butt-ring and reel ( see pages 15–17 ) . |
| 29 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 30 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |