Example sentences of "have [verb] long [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 2 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 3 | Some acupuncturists find that they can not treat patients who have had long courses of antibiotic therapy until several months after this treatment has finished . |
| 4 | Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space . |
| 5 | A blush , a hangdog posture or a limp handshape can all convey information and experts in so-called body language — horrid phrase — have compiled long lists of postures and gestures from which an observant onlooker can glean some information about the attitudes or intentions of others . |
| 6 | Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them . |