Example sentences of "have [been] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 2 | Learning by rote has been long out of fashion , but I loved reciting poetry , and can remember long poems learned when I was too young to understand the words , but just loved the sound of them . |
| 3 | It has been long and widely believed that urbanization and industrialization cause large increases in crime . |
| 4 | His marriage to a Spanish Roman Catholic , Catalina , has been long and happy . |
| 5 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 6 | Emmanuel Levinas , for example , whose career has been long enough to have introduced Husserl to Sartre in the thirties and to have been able to reply to Derrida in the seventies , proposes a rather different critique of such models of knowledge to those which we have encountered so far . |
| 7 | It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed . |
| 8 | Although the story has been long and widely recounted ( John Prebble 's heartbreaking book , Culloden , brings the event to life ) , nothing compares with walking the field , seeing the small cairns marking where clansmen fell , measuring the rides of the horse-troops . |
| 9 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 10 | The embassy also suggests avoiding crowds , not arguing politics with the locals and keeping a reserve fund of cash available in case banks are closed , including the 45 dinars residents need for the normal exit stamp if your stay has been longer than six months . |
| 11 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 12 | Indeed , sometimes it is not very useful , as there may have been long periods without any clear artistic developments , such as the Roman empire of the fourth and fifth centuries or the early medieval period . |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't know how long he 's been dead , ’ murmured the Marshal , ‘ though it could n't have been long , he was n't … |
| 14 | They watched a woman , who could not have been long in this country , testing a mango for ripeness : she felt it all over with her thumb , not looking at it , concentrated , unsmiling , until the stall holder , ever-vigilant , caught sight of her . |
| 15 | It can not have been long , however , before the painting began to undergo a series of striking changes . |
| 16 | Yet he could not have been long in the water . |
| 17 | During recent times , the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival . |
| 18 | Here , the writer has put a full stop between " processes " and " she " , probably because the whole sentence ( with a comma instead of a full stop ) would have been long . |
| 19 | It is also encouraging that my list could have been longer . |
| 20 | This is a step towards justice though TODAY believes that her sentence should have been longer still . |
| 21 | Until comparatively recently the list of Home Office functions summarized in Table 3 would have been longer than it now is . |
| 22 | Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me . |
| 23 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure but it could have been longer . |
| 25 | The judge told him that the sentence would have been longer if his victim had been permanently scarred . |
| 26 | Having been long pent up in town , Annie and myself viewed Southall as a second Paradise , and I remember I nearly hung myself on my pin-before the very first morning after our arrival , in attempting to scale the yard gates to see the country beyond them . |
| 27 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 28 | A less selective article might have noted that the main thrust of the advice for harp seats is that pup production in 1977–1980 was likely to have been longer than the later 1960s pup production . |
| 29 | The terms of service of the German ministeriales are very imperfectly known , and seem to have been longer ; even there , dependence on the loyalty and efficiency of widely scattered bishoprics and abbeys could be cumbersome and inefficient . |
| 30 | His short doze in the living room had been long enough to keep him awake now . |