Example sentences of "have [verb] a long time [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
2 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
3 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
5 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
6 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
7 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
8 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
9 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
10 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
11 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
12 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
13 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
14 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
15 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
16 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
17 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
18 | He had quite liked the thought of being fit and athletic some time in the future , although the signs had taken a long time coming . |
19 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
20 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
21 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
22 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
23 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
24 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
25 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
26 | The links between sport , the media ‘ and big business ‘ which are now so important , have taken a long time to forge . |
27 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
28 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
29 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
30 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |