Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minutes record ‘ There followed a long discussion about the merits of bondholders and Dr. G. O'Gorman forcibly made the point that their position and relative control was undemocratic and that their strength was out of balance with their numbers . ’ |
| 2 | When it came , what a bore — no beer , no fancy cheroots , just a long discussion about the validity of putting Sham 69 on the cover . |
| 3 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 4 | A long gossip about the adventures of the last few days , with some exaggeration as the wine flows about the strength of the winds and the size of the waves . |
| 5 | His paper of January 1856 turned out to be only the beginning of a long argument about the need to abolish serfdom in order to put the Russian army on a sounder footing . |
| 6 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 7 | ‘ We had a long talk about the future . ’ |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 9 | The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published . |
| 10 | I 'm writing a long article about the horrors of the diet and exercise industry . ’ ) |
| 11 | He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side . |