Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 2 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 3 | A path is simply a set of instructions like that , but you do n't have to type a long string of commands to do the job . |
| 4 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 5 | I shall have to have a long talk with the Lord beforehand . ’ |
| 6 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 7 | ‘ Undoubtedly , you would have to think a long while before knowing which you prefer . ’ |