Example sentences of "very long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 2 | Not only has British school librarianship no very long tradition of multimedia interest ( Shrewsbury School in 1578 notwithstanding ) , there is not even a very secure tradition of school librarianship at all until the post- I 945 era , despite the admirable work of many grammar school teachers in the 19305 . |
| 3 | In spite of the fact that there has been a very long tradition of work on rural land use , including the invaluable land use survey of the 1930s ( Stamp , 1962 ) , and its revival in the second survey of the 1960s and 1970s * ( Coleman et al , 1974 ) and much other detailed work from other sources ( Hart , 1980 ; Coppock , 1960a ; Best , 1981 ) as shown in Table 8. 1 , there is still a desperate need ( Hall , 1 974 , 414 ) for a ‘ national Domesday book for land use , preferably updated every 10 years at the time of the population census ’ . |
| 4 | Still , Germany has no very long history as a unitary state ( less than a century ) and has had three capitals since 1918 — Weimar , Berlin and Bonn . |
| 5 | It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent . |
| 6 | She had , to hand , the lavatory brush , three toilet rolls and the hardback edition of a very long novel by a Peruvian author with an unpronounceable name . |
| 7 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 8 | His view of contemporary comedy as a whole is equally oblique : ‘ I see it as a very , very long trench with a worm and a piece of hot bacon nearby . ’ |
| 9 | The result can be a very long document in a complicated coding scheme , but it forms a powerful description of design information without any compromise made in accuracy . |
| 10 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 11 | This is elicited , after the very long delay of 400 msec , by the visual presentation of a semantically improbable word ( for example , the word ‘ socks ’ in ‘ He spread the warm bread with socks ’ ) . |
| 12 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 13 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
| 14 | A Labour government would be wise to send him off to make a very long film in India . |
| 15 | Timmy the catcher mouse was a very long name for a very little cat so everyone called him Tim . |
| 16 | A month is a very long tim in fotbal . |
| 17 | ‘ Negotiating with customers took time too ; it 's a very long haul in the Eastern European market , ’ comments Pomfret . |
| 18 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
| 19 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 20 | There was a very long story about him and Donald in the Rose and Thorn , a short , rather vulgar anecdote about something that had happened to Donald 's wife while crossing Wimbledon Common and a boastful piece about how he , Henry , had amused some French sailors in the bar at the Mini Golf , Boulogne sur Mer . |
| 21 | The GT 35s were immediately comfortable and even on the backpack , with one very long day in the heat , I suffered no blisters and little foot discomfort . |
| 22 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 23 | She 's ninety-three now , so she has a , a very long memory of , of political causes . |
| 24 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 25 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 26 | This combination of a strictly limited set of measures , and their application only to new housing , goes a very long way to explaining why public ignorance of these matters is so widespread in Britain . |
| 27 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 28 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 29 | ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’ |
| 30 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |