Example sentences of "have [verb] a long time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 14 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 15 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 16 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | The links between sport , the media ‘ and big business ‘ which are now so important , have taken a long time to forge . |
| 19 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 20 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 21 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 22 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 23 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 24 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |