Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the story has been long and widely recounted ( John Prebble 's heartbreaking book , Culloden , brings the event to life ) , nothing compares with walking the field , seeing the small cairns marking where clansmen fell , measuring the rides of the horse-troops . |
| 2 | It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed . |
| 3 | His short doze in the living room had been long enough to keep him awake now . |
| 4 | From his porch , Joseph watched with a sullen and rather bleary eye : the night had been long on reminiscence and several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories . |
| 5 | Emmanuel Levinas , for example , whose career has been long enough to have introduced Husserl to Sartre in the thirties and to have been able to reply to Derrida in the seventies , proposes a rather different critique of such models of knowledge to those which we have encountered so far . |
| 6 | His round had been long and arduous , and he was thinking how pleasant it would be to see and tease McAllister and ask her to serve them all some home-made lemonade . |
| 7 | Learning by rote has been long out of fashion , but I loved reciting poetry , and can remember long poems learned when I was too young to understand the words , but just loved the sound of them . |
| 8 | My mother 's final illness had been long and painful for her and emotionally and physically demanding for me . |
| 9 | The journey had been long , hot and tiring and to add to my list I did n't really want to come home . |
| 10 | The damage was double : the exposure to the flames had been long enough to cause severe burns to his face , head and hands ; worse , he had been forced , as the flames consumed the oxygen , to inhale volatile fuel and smoke , both of which critically affected his lungs and blood . |