Example sentences of "a [noun sg] long [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bit long for you . |
| 2 | He was a bit long in the legs for it so he sometimes knocked his knees painfully . |
| 3 | If I may say so , you 're a bit long in the tooth to be an articled clerk , and — to make up for that — you have an air of authority that scarcely fits you for a junior position . |
| 4 | Your printer is a bit long in the tooth but , as you say , treated as an FX80 it works well with other Windows applications . |
| 5 | it 's a bit long in the tooth that one . |
| 6 | he was out moaning again yesterday , so I just thought it was getting a bit long round where the old septic tank used to be oh sha n't and we 've done Tesco 's so that clock 's right is n't it ? |
| 7 | Well I think we 're lucky they must be keeping it a bit longer for interest of something to all out . |
| 8 | ‘ I got a list of things a mile long fer the drapers . ’ |
| 9 | Thus mild steel structures , for instance , can generally put up with cracks at least a metre long without breaking . |