Example sentences of "[adj] have [been] [verb] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 2 | All had been sentenced to long prison sentences for the " dirty war " against left-wing guerrillas and dissidents , during which an estimated 9,000 people " disappeared " and thousands more were abducted , tortured and murdered . |
| 3 | Thirty four patients had been maintained on delayed release mesalazine for a minimum of six months and 28 had been maintained on long term sulphasalazine . |
| 4 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 5 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |