Example sentences of "[verb] existed for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 2 | Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence . |
| 3 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
| 4 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 5 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 6 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 7 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 8 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |