Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight .
2 Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered .
3 Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site .
4 During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye .
5 There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy .
6 ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said .
7 Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware .
8 Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist !
9 The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby .
10 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
11 Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 .
12 Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty
13 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
14 Phil 's got a long way to go actually
15 Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s .
16 Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One .
17 Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head .
18 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
19 Miss Lodsworth had had a long day .
20 It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all .
21 Multiple champions Honda have quit the long distance haul and Alex Vieira ( on the RVF ) now rides for Kawasaki
22 If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way .
23 Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister .
24 The fear was there again , from last summer , when Peter had climbed the long ladder up to the clock tower and had frozen near the top ; Barnes had had to talk him down .
25 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
26 This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel
27 MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this .
28 Marjorie had opened the long sash windows and pushed the table near them , so that it was almost like eating in the garden .
29 Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages .
30 Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old .
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