Example sentences of "has a long [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century .
2 And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out .
3 What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry .
4 In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject .
5 Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country .
6 This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) .
7 The study of the state has a long history in the social sciences .
8 Whilst recognising that such a survey would be of only indirect relevance to their present situation , the firm has a long history in the area ( since 1890 ) , and its management has an acute awareness that the present local employment situation is likely to deteriorate further without a mix of public/private initiatives .
9 Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years .
10 More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism .
11 Opposition to a fixed European exchange rate has a long history within the Labour movement .
12 He has a long involvement with the Institute stretching back over four decades and until recently was Chairman of the Membership Board as well as being Senior Vice President .
13 She has a long association with the scouting movement and is president of the East Middlesbrough scout executive .
14 It is not surprising , then , to find that the clause has a long career in the documents .
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