Example sentences of "long [noun] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of international respect for the US was clearly at issue in the Iran hostage crisis , and over the long term this matter had a relentlessly negative effect on Carter 's chances of re-election . |
| 2 | down and worked out how many days he 's had the long wheelbase this week . |
| 3 | A RECORD 4,802 Japanese who are 100 years or older will celebrate their long life this month , the Government said today . |
| 4 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 5 | He dipped the flannel in the water and bathed the swollen joint not once but many times , leaving the flannel wrapped around it for long seconds each time . |
| 6 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 7 | come a long way that man ! |
| 8 | He had walked a long way that day . |
| 9 | This table 's a long way this way is n't it ? |
| 10 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 11 | For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more . |
| 12 | I was awake a long time that night . |
| 13 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 14 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 15 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 16 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 17 | dis I mean , it 's a bloody long time that train in n it ? |
| 18 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 19 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 20 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 21 | While in the longer run this practice perhaps strengthened the High Authority in its relations with the member governments , the caution it induced in the High Authority , along with the ambiguity of the treaty , made for some slow progress . |
| 22 | A rather longer silence this time , and then one of the group says hesitantly , " We milk them . " |
| 23 | A longer pause this time as the words were absorbed , the meaning registered . |
| 24 | Erm right the open show fifty nine ninety five for the hire of the hall , much the same as last year , it 's keeping pretty well down er , it 's , we paid fifty three eighty last year , but I think because little bit for a longer time this year . |