Example sentences of "in a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I simply concentrated on reducing the network , I would involve myself in a long and profitless public , political and industrial row . |
| 2 | Now he faced the biggest obstacle he would ever have to clear , for the only chance of cure lay in a long and horrifically painful course of chemotherapy . |
| 3 | In a long and bitter attack on the political system in Germany , one commentator has drawn attention to the questionable practices which arise from a system in which parties are subsidised by the state , a practice justified by the need to have strong parties in order to maintain a healthy political culture : |
| 4 | In a long and controversial career in football which included spells with West Bromwich Albion , Vancouver Whitecaps and Birmingham City , Johnson 's career ended in his 39th year at Hearts . |
| 5 | Ex-Fini Triber , Ministry Man and Revolting Cock Chris Connelly team up with the Tribe once more in a long and slow shuffling expedition that 's not necessarily a club-oriented track but is constructed from the fundamental elements of the club scene at least . |
| 6 | At various points in this book of memories and some attempt at self-examination in a long and adventurous life , I have mentioned the love and help I received from my wife Marjorie . |
| 7 | IN A LONG and distinguished career , Malcolm Marshall had won almost everything , but not a winner 's medal in a Lord 's cup final . |
| 8 | A similar attempt to draw attention to an approaching commitment that was so deep that it might even lead to direct US intervention was made by the Deputy Director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , John Ohly , in a long and thoughtful paper which he submitted through Rusk to Acheson . |
| 9 | In a long and careful judgment he said , and I agree with him , that the point is not free from difficulty . |
| 10 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 11 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 12 | He groaned , and shifted a little , tantalising her with the answering flicker of his tongue over the heavy swell of her breast , before he took her mouth again in a long and hungry kiss . |
| 13 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 14 | Dedicated football fan that he is , Anderson attempts to give advice to Crisp and Broadbent in a long and excited utterance , but this is only a part of the whole picture because his enthusiasm for the topic , implicated by the length of the turn , conflicts with the hesitancy he also displays . |
| 15 | But McGilligan , who has made more than his fair share of sacrifices in a long and distinguished career in the Derry jersey , frowns on the impinging mercenary attitudes . |
| 16 | Another problem arises from the form of the inscriptions ; most are lists of short , terse statements — objects , numbers and dedicatees — and many of the words are proper names , so it is possible to make false interpretations without the errors becoming apparent subsequently , as they would in a longer and more connected text . |
| 17 | Now he was moving slowly as the bark peeled back in a longer and longer strip . |