Example sentences of "a long line [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a long line of tradition in adidas shoe manufacture comes the Tennis Stabil and the Tennis Lite . |
| 2 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 3 | Yet climbers appear willing to put an inordinate amount of faith in a long line of brass nuts and then show surprise when they pull like a hot knife through butter . |
| 4 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 5 | A long line of gas lamps ran along each wall , giving it a dim smoky glow . |
| 6 | It was to be the first in a long line of pay battles that would give her a reputation for being one of the toughest negotiators in the business . |
| 7 | Miami is a wonderful example of the art — the ocean , a long line of hotel pool areas and almost nobody on the beach in between . |
| 8 | CATH is not a Catholic organisation , but Father Tim continues a long line of involvement by the Franciscans that started with Father Crispin back in 1972 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is the first in what we hope will be a long line of animation series from HTV . |
| 10 | The argument for the adoption of national spatial policies was persuasive , the latest of a long line of advocacy for a programme of urban rebuilding which would consciously reconstruct older areas to different patterns . |
| 11 | Few people are aware that he also pioneered a long line of excursion steamers on the Forth starting in 1813 . |
| 12 | The Red Sea came into view in the late afternoon , an intense blue that washed along the flat desert shore in a long line of white . |
| 13 | This is the practice of buying a long line of stock from one seller and then selling the shares through the market . |
| 14 | You will even be able to remember the items at random : 9 — a long line of Christmas trees , 4 — a dead aspidistra instead of a door handle … and so on . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |