Example sentences of "a long history in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 2 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 3 | What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry . |
| 4 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 5 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 6 | Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities . |
| 7 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 8 | The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society . |
| 9 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 10 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 11 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 12 | Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world . |
| 13 | The practice of coppicing has a long history in Britain . |
| 14 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 15 | The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection . |
| 16 | This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) . |
| 17 | There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation . |
| 18 | The study of the state has a long history in the social sciences . |
| 19 | Most importantly the use of syntactic information has a long history in computational linguistics . |
| 20 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 21 | Whilst recognising that such a survey would be of only indirect relevance to their present situation , the firm has a long history in the area ( since 1890 ) , and its management has an acute awareness that the present local employment situation is likely to deteriorate further without a mix of public/private initiatives . |
| 22 | The use of official statistics , for example , has a long history in many of the social sciences . |
| 23 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |