Example sentences of "an [adv] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |
| 2 | In the meantime Emilia was in her room still , fussing for an unconscionably long time over her appearance . |
| 3 | The Gaullist conception of state broadcasting would prove an unconscionably long time in dying-in May 1986 Communications Minister Léotard still referred to the need to reduce state control — ‘ la desétatisation de l'audiovisuel ’ . |
| 4 | Before the law was introduced in the Greek parliament , there was an extremely long procedure during which the minister of education visited each Greek campus and held lengthy discussions with the universities ' senates on the basis of written replies to a questionnaire distributed by the ministry to each member of the university community in Greece . |
| 5 | ‘ Oliver has drawn up an impossibly long list of games , ’ Marjorie said . |
| 6 | He watched her fumble for an intentionally long time in her handbag for the means of lighting the Turkish cigarette she held aloft in her left hand , only a foot or so away from Mark 's head . |
| 7 | To the earliest Christian communities Jesus was not the founder or originator of the community of God 's people , but the climax of an already long story of a divine education of humanity through the special illumination given to the prophets of Israel . |
| 8 | After an immensely long period of feeble luminosity , the star loses the last of its light and heat , and becomes a cold , dead Black Dwarf . |
| 9 | Also , if , by the end of the day , he had not left the house without her permission , she would read an extra long story to him . |
| 10 | So each replicator is potentially the ‘ ancestor ’ of an indefinitely long line of descendant replicators , stretching into the distant future , and branching to produce , potentially , an exceedingly large number of descendant replicators . |
| 11 | The possibility of an indefinitely long list of necessary indices or co-ordinates thus has to be faced . |
| 12 | Beginning with efforts to rid Britain herself of slaves , traversing the abolition and emancipation campaigns and the less dramatic struggle to suppress the international trade in slaves and assist liberation in foreign countries , British abolitionists had an exceptionally long history as reformers . |
| 13 | A pitched battle followed between the constable and his two protagonists , an engagement that was to last for ten to twelve minutes , an exceptionally long time for an affray . |
| 14 | She had bare shoulders and arms ; a heavy gold and ebony bracelet ; an enormously long necklace of what looked like sapphires , though I presumed they must be paste , or ultramarines . |
| 15 | Beat it for ten minutes , that 's it seems an awfully long time to just stand there and . |
| 16 | A week can be an awfully long time in political journalism . |
| 17 | CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System . |
| 18 | There are still many areas in Great Britain where there are test centres who are an awful long way from the motorway , and at the moment , Banbury is in that position , so the driving test would have to be at least something like 2 or 3 hours duration by the time they got out there and driven . |
| 19 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 20 | ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot . |
| 21 | It 's been an awful long time for this part has n't it ? |
| 22 | It takes an awful long time for you to regain that and to feel safe in your own homes . |
| 23 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 24 | For , I think we 'd probably better keep you going for , how about six da hmm for five days , that 's actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body . |
| 25 | Cos they 're not going to take an awful long time in a good hot room to dry . |
| 26 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 27 | ‘ The galaxy is also one of a group of galaxies , ’ Ace added , ‘ who have an even longer year of their own . |
| 28 | However , if you wish , you can extend this for further periods of ten years , to provide an even longer term for your tax-free savings . |
| 29 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 30 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |