Example sentences of "have a long [conj] [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | These have a long and complex history of development , but no definitive book has yet been written on them — it is one of the great needs for students of the developing landscape . |
| 3 | Penal reform groups have a long and honourable history and have played an important part in the development of criminal justice policy over the years . |
| 4 | Other listening modes — for instance , those where music is associated with activities of various kinds , the sounds perhaps impinging on muscles , skin , nerves as much as conscious thought processes — have a long and continuous history , however ; and , still , as anthropologists have shown , a living ethnography . |
| 5 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |