Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 3 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 4 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
| 5 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 6 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 7 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
| 8 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 9 | Both have gone on for a long time . |