Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 3 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 4 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 5 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 6 | Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant . |
| 7 | On May 18th 60 members had a long session with Howard Pastor , the White House head of congressional liaison , trying to convince him of the need for further cuts . |
| 8 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |