Example sentences of "has [prep] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powerful multiplicity of sexuality has for too long been reduced to the level of the coarse car sticker , the symbol of two feet pointing upwards and two feet pointing downwards . |
| 2 | With the breakdown of the artificial barrier which has for too long divided an academic education from vocational one , there are opportunities for all — provided you 're intelligent enough to sort out the colleges from the universities from the polytechnics that is . |
| 3 | Concern has for too long been with problems of stylistic chronological placement and historical continuity between and among archaeologically defined units . |
| 4 | It 's marvellous to see the wide variety of bird feeders , pond liners , wildflower seeds , nest-boxes , butterfly border plants and other merchandise marketed in this way , and , of course , it 's to be encouraged in an industry which has for too long simply serviced the chemical-warfare approach to gardening . |
| 5 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |
| 6 | ‘ Joyce did not move from the day book of Ulysses to the night book of the Wake , and that has for too long been one of the fundamental mistakes that people have been making . |
| 7 | The most important aspects of the ‘ green Budget ’ are that it will encourage people to act , and it recognises the environmental mantra that energy has for too long been too cheap . |
| 8 | While Labour needs to think hard about a coherent and realistic policy , to give substance to what is otherwise simply a slogan , there were signs in Inverness of regeneration — and a recognition that Labour has for too long taken its political dominance in Scotland for granted . |
| 9 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 10 | From October , with the birth of the British Athletics Federation ( BAF ) , British athletics should finally give the sport the constitution it has for so long struggled to devise . |
| 11 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 12 | The one at Marham in Norfolk incorporates a World War One aeroplane of unspecified type and that at Upwood the Canberra which has for so long been associated with the RAF station . |
| 13 | A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east . |
| 14 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 15 | ‘ It can therefore be seen that variation from place to place in climax tropical lowland rain forest , which has for so long intrigued and challenged ecologists , is not open to any single or simple explanation . |