Example sentences of "to a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 2 | All that now remains is a single tower , a poor monument to a long history of noble residences on the site . |
| 3 | Influenced by a wide range of illustrators and painters , from William Blake to Chagall , his work introduces the young reader to a long tradition of Western art . |
| 4 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 5 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 6 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ And if Carole Swan were here , ’ said Mrs Cartwright , adding a petits four to a long meal of wrong-doing , ‘ she would be able to tell you about what he did to her daughter Grace . |
| 8 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 9 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
| 10 | King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence . |
| 11 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 12 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 13 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 14 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 15 | Buddhists believe that Gautama the Buddha was the successor to a long line of earlier Buddhas , all distinguished by shrewdness , wisdom , love or sacrifice . |
| 16 | A group of chandlers stood next to a long line of gutted pigs , arguing with their owner about the price of the fat which they would buy to make tallow candles . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm angry because — because you think you can add me to a long line of women notched on your belt . |
| 18 | Barbara Todd , executive secretary to a long line of senior managers , retired on 3 July 1992 . |
| 19 | Steps to the left lead up to a long stretch of path which continues parallel to the road . |
| 20 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 21 | We dropped down from the Spa to a long stretch of empty beach and the sergeant shouted " " Right , sprint to those rocks ! |
| 22 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |
| 23 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 24 | They took her out , across the wide Neva river to the north-east of the city , to a long street of factories and high concrete walls where tourists and visitors had little reason to go . |
| 25 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 26 | Better performance for one hemifield could be due either to a longer duration of icon , thus allowing more information to be encoded before the icon fades , or to a faster encoding rate , allowing more information to be encoded before the arrival of the masking stimulus . |