Example sentences of "of a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the course of a long and misspent career , I have probably seen less amusing comedies than this but , if so , I can not at present call any of them to mind . ’ |
| 2 | Towards the end of a long and tiring night shift , when news was coming through of the murder of another member of the RUC , one policeman in particular decided to put the field-worker through a test of trust . |
| 3 | That the monument is only the latest manifestation of a long and miserable tradition of big lies and big art should come as no surprise to readers of ‘ Republic of Fear ’ , Mr Khalil 's previous study of contemporary Iraqi politics . |
| 4 | The Labour Party was rejected and Paddy Ashdown brushed aside , even in the midst of a long and worrying recession and after the Government 's uncertain start to the campaign . |
| 5 | For Captain Pugwash it was , he hoped , the end of a long and infamous career . |
| 6 | I was able to arrange a series of CBC talks by Olive Kerr at the start of a long and valued friendship . |
| 7 | However , the preoccupation with violence and lawlessness is part of a long and continuous tradition , rather than a new and unique phenomenon . |
| 8 | We have been shown meanwhile that there was a great deal more continuity in the northern cities than had been supposed ; and that the contrast in their sites and situations between the cities of the plain in northern Europe and northern Italy , and the cities of the hills in Tuscany and Umbria , was the result in both cases of a long and complex history , of choices deliberately made and often repeated . |
| 9 | These elements were part of a long and complex history of German restlessness and Polish insecurity — ideas that the British , French and Americans , secure in thoroughly different kinds of national , linguistic and cultural identities , could not even begin to chart . |
| 10 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 11 | These are the bare bones of a long and distinguished scientific career . |
| 12 | With the experience of a long and close association with world class designers , notably German Frers , we have developed a superb range of graceful and seakindly ocean cruising yachts with an emphasis on style and effortless performance . |
| 13 | That was the start of a long and warm friendship with the Edwards family . |
| 14 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 15 | As has been seen clearly from the English and Welsh experience , the initial sales of subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group may be only the beginning of a long and complicated saga . |
| 16 | Shildon , he explained , had been dismissed from the Detroit paper towards the end of a long and exhaustive investigation which , if the results had been published , could have had serious repercussions for MacQuillan 's political associates . |
| 17 | 1970 saw the start of a long and happy period for me in command of Venturous . |
| 18 | AT THE end of a long and exhausting working day Kate retired to her room with one thing only on her mind , and that was a need for a cool shower . |
| 19 | Alan Parton , Ian Shepherd and the staff of JM Burslem treated us all to a wonderful welcome and an excellent buffet lunch which was most appreciated at the end of a long and winding road . |
| 20 | DSc is somewhat different , being awarded usually to recipients on the basis of a long and distinguished record of scientific publications within a subject field . |
| 21 | Short ofa complete upheaval in popular taste , the Really Useful Company seems assured of a long and lucrative future . |
| 22 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 23 | Instead , it is an opera about the genius of England , and about the vicissitudes , at the end of a long and glorious reign , of one of England 's most loved and applauded worthies . |
| 24 | I had a feeling when I read those words over 40 years ago , and written in the heat of the aftermath of a long and tiresome period of war , that Sir Arthur might have wished he had put it differently . |
| 25 | Cricket in Sri Lanka is indeed a tough job with the high humidity as big a factor as the near 100 degree temperatures and the weather does add extra pressure on England 's players at the end of a long and arduous tour as they try to regain a little bit of their lost pride . |
| 26 | My childhood was the place where , for my mother , the fairy tales failed , and through the glass of that childhood I now see that failure as part of a longer and more enduring one . |