Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a long history " in BNC.

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1 Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered .
2 This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory .
3 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
4 But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history .
5 This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history .
6 If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 .
7 The practice of coppicing has a long history in Britain .
8 As we pointed out earlier , the kind of model for insider evaluation that Shipman proposes has a long history and there is little evidence that it has been significantly displaced by newer alternatives .
9 Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people .
10 I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back .
11 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
12 It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course .
13 Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities .
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