Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not get around so nimbly in scrub vegetation as the Norfolk lurcher ; they are really for coursing , for a long chase after hares , and my animals are not used for that . |
| 2 | Now this may sound an anathema to some Evangelical ears because for some the Church is but a secondary fact in Christian truth , coming a long way after personal faith and experience . |
| 3 | I know this is a long way after the event , but were you on Beinn Sgulaird , Argyll , on June 21 as part of the Boots Across Scotland ( BAS ) Fundraising Day ? |
| 4 | And a long way after that they think about children . |
| 5 | Er and then he , he went to Singapore , he was there for quite a long while after the war teaching the er the English children . |
| 6 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |
| 7 | Under the latter system arable land was put under grass for a long period after which it was returned to arable . |
| 8 | For a long time after his arrival there , armed groups of various kinds continued to be chased through the nearby woods by Red Army units . |
| 9 | Miss Picon and her husband were so profoundly affected by their experiences that for a long time after their return to New York they were unable to work . |
| 10 | Many ailments , especially viral ones such as Fish Pox , can make themselves apparent a long time after purchase : in other words , unless you go the whole hog , like the very top Koi-keepers , quarantine is no guarantee that all will be well . |
| 11 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 12 | It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes . |
| 13 | For a long time after its publication in 1903 G.Moore 's Principia Ethica was the most influential work of moral philosophy in English . |
| 14 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 15 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 16 | I was very unhappy for a long time after that . |
| 17 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 18 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 19 | It was a long time after that before I regained my confidence . |
| 20 | I left Dublin a long time after you … ’ |
| 21 | Er what sort of relationship did you have with with the men , did you er particularly thinking that you you were still for a long time after that , the the branch secretary of the union as well you know . |
| 22 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 23 | But with makeshift striker Paul Warhurst facing a long lay-off after his horror injury , Francis must again decide between himself , Nigel Jemson and Gordon Watson for the other place . |
| 24 | Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests . |