Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] have a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 2 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 4 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 5 | This plant has a long leaf form which is found in the lowlands where the temperature is substantially high . |
| 6 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 7 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |