Example sentences of "[noun] have [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 2 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 3 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 5 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 6 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 7 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 8 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 9 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 10 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 11 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 12 | Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium . |
| 14 | Both orchestra and conductor have a long list of international commitments every year . |
| 15 | Elves and Dwarves have a long history of hate yet Legolas and Gimli become friends because they travel in Frodo 's company together . |
| 16 | In Germany , where discounters have a long history , they control a quarter of the market . |
| 17 | Predator species have a long evolutionary history , and it is inferred that they have been as important in the past as accumulators of small mammal bone as they are today . |
| 18 | Marine sponges have a long fossil record from the Cambrian onwards , and at many localities they are abundant enough to be important rock formers . |
| 19 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 20 | At present , we are the only party prepared to grasp the nettle and to recognise that consumers ' interests require both effective competition in the marketplace — the Government have a long way to go before they create that — and effective regulation where the market can not produce a solution . |
| 21 | The frailties of the holiday romance have a long history . |
| 22 | Other features : the meals have a long shelf life and are light and compact to carry . |
| 23 | Today 's graduates have a long way to go to match the service of the RAF 's longest serving ex-apprentice . |
| 24 | These cases hardly ever go to court , but publishers have a long record of paying up and shutting up . |
| 25 | The concepts of crystal settling and convection in magma chambers have a long history r2–6 . |
| 26 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 27 | Such associations of sexual deviance and political threat have a long history sedimented into our language and culture . |
| 28 | The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents . |
| 29 | Such flows approach asymptotically to the self-preserving form , although often very slowly ; for reasons to be seen in Section 21.4 , turbulent flows have a long ‘ memory ’ of upstream conditions . |
| 30 | WUS and educational assistance to South Africa WUS International and WUS(UK) have a long history of supporting the efforts of the black majority of South Africans to overcome the educational discrimination which is an integral part of apartheid . |