Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a long " 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 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 3 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 4 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 5 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 6 | The Association has a long history ( dating back to the end of the last century ) , and the ESRC funded project will complement existing work on the period before 1946 . |
| 7 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 9 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 10 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 11 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 12 | Visible light has a longer wavelength than UV radiation . |
| 13 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 14 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 15 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 16 | Local government audit has a long history . |
| 17 | The village has a long history . |
| 18 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 19 | THE QUEEN 'S HEAD , said to be a 14th Century inn has a long gallery , now glassed in , facing east , but it is not an original structure . |
| 20 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 21 | A long-stroke engine has a long con-rod , which acts as a longer lever on the crank . |
| 22 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
| 23 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
| 24 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 25 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 26 | If we then look at paragraph five , that 's the first page of appendix two , we see here The appeal site has a long planning history . |
| 27 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
| 28 | The UK group has a long standing commitment , made to the Hong Kong Government , to broaden the shareholder base of Hong Kong Telecom and a deal with CITIC would be consistent with that . |
| 29 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 30 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |