Example sentences of "for a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 2 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 3 | I was busy trying to set a grammar school on a new course , meeting the heads of the other secondary schools for a long and sticky evening in the north Oxfordshire village of Adderbury , and experiencing some of the excitements and discomforts involved in shuffling and reorganization : it was the year in which C. P. Snow published his Corridors of Power . |
| 4 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 5 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 6 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 7 | We would like to wish Ian all the best for a long and happy retirement . |
| 8 | Bill was given a cheque with best wishes for a long and happy retirement , from all his friends in Scottish Amicable . |
| 9 | This scheme , for which N. F. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1989 , enables the maximum resolution to be extracted without the need for a long and highly uniform interaction region . |
| 10 | A former miner , Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement . |
| 11 | Cyril 's secret for a long and active life — treat yourself . |
| 12 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 13 | wishes to retire as Editor after the May issue of Medau News , and our thanks go to her for a long and excellent Editorship . |
| 14 | Thus , as in the case of the USA , the size and complexity of the programmes , mixed successes , and the possibility that programmes have significantly reduced soil losses , or even the rate of decline rather than improved yields , point to the need for a longer and more sophisticated assessment than is given here . |
| 15 | The path up the gully from Bridge of Orchy is certainly the shortest route to the two peaks , but for a longer and more spectacular walk there is a deliciously tempting circuit round the back of the mountains via Auch Gleann . |