Example sentences of "a long [adj] history " in BNC.

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1 Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook .
2 The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history .
3 Predator species have a long evolutionary history , and it is inferred that they have been as important in the past as accumulators of small mammal bone as they are today .
4 A separate area is being given to modern day Stoddard , this time representing a thriving Company of significance with a long established history .
5 ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ .
6 But orang-utans were never as terrestrial as chimpanzees , for the species lacks the knuckle-walking adaptations of the African apes and its limb proportions indicate a long arboreal history .
7 Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves .
8 But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’
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