Example sentences of "the [noun sg] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We suggested to the ministry a long time ago that they should find a flock with salmonella and test the eggs for salmonella . |
| 2 | One of the letters , to Val Hulme of ABC , said : ‘ I have met many innocent men inside this building of darkness , many who gave up the fight a long time ago . |
| 3 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
| 4 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 5 | Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally . |
| 6 | One evening Mrs Hollidaye brought to the bedroom a long wooden box . |
| 7 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 8 | He poured into the telephone a long and unintelligible narrative about Profumo 's villainy in relation to the unhappy answer he had given to Wigg about the army . |
| 9 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 10 | She waited on the landing a long time , hating the awful quietness and longing for them to start shouting again so that she would know everything was all right . |
| 11 | Jefferson has been in the business a long time and is no fool , is he ? ’ |
| 12 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |
| 13 | I mean , I know Gerald went first , and I know he 's been in the business a long while , but he actually managed to say it all in about three sentences . |
| 14 | No one was certain whether or not this would have the desired effect but Party Politics produced a tremendous performance to win the Greenall Chase at Haydock , taking the lead a long way out and running on strongly . |
| 15 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 16 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
| 17 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |
| 18 | It means they often have to fly the ball a long way in the air with very little run , depending , of course , on where the flag is . |
| 19 | North of the Border a long and fruitful association has existed between the Bank and the Scottish chamber Orchestra , the latest joint venture being a series of School Workshops followed up by Family concerts within the relative areas . |
| 20 | I usually do this as little as possible so that the children stay in the game a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been in the game a long time and you do n't last forever . |
| 22 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 23 | The recession of the 1870s was shallow , but one that took the economy a long time to climb out of . |
| 24 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
| 25 | The Company Commander arrived at the objective a long way last and considerably out of breath . |
| 26 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
| 27 | Then , holding the excess material at the back of Terry 's waist , giving the dress a longer , more elegant line , she murmured , ‘ What do you think ? ’ |
| 28 | Mr Young looked bored , as if he had tired of the subject a long time ago , but his wife retained her sweet comforting expression without any visible effort . |
| 29 | We are staying in what was the British part of the city a long time ago , and as you can imagine the ‘ British Imperialists ’ are not very popular here , but everyone is kind to us , and does n't mention such things . |
| 30 | She was in the hospital a long while . |