Example sentences of "[noun] has been 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The embassy also suggests avoiding crowds , not arguing politics with the locals and keeping a reserve fund of cash available in case banks are closed , including the 45 dinars residents need for the normal exit stamp if your stay has been longer than six months . |