Example sentences of "have long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 2 | David Roper , marketing executive , said : ‘ Car exhaust emissions are a major source of lead pollution in the atmosphere , which can have long term effects to health , particularly young children . |
| 3 | They did not have long to wait . |
| 4 | They must have long memories , Mungo thought , lying here in permanent dusk . |
| 5 | EXPATRIATES in Hong Kong , homesick for real fish and chips do not have long to wait . |
| 6 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 7 | Most Sarcophyton species have the polypary densely covered in individual polyps , which may have long or short stalks , and tentacles which similarly vary in size and may be feathery ( pinnated ) or simple . |
| 8 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 9 | She did not have long to wait . |
| 10 | Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he did n't have long to live . |
| 11 | A factor to be considered was that the leases were short term and therefore often did not have long to run by the year end ; this reduced the difference between a valuation with vacant possession and one with a tenant in occupation . |
| 12 | I went home feeling miserable and ashamed for being such a fool but I did n't have long to indulge my self-pity , for when I entered our house I found my brother Jack and Mum quarrelling loudly . |
| 13 | Sadly , he did not have long to bask in the glory of that epic flight , he was killed while delivering a Vickers Viking in France . |
| 14 | It appears that we may not have long to go . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 17 | These relatively low interest rates make it an attractive source of finance to borrowers , and the fact that it is a non-profit-making organization means that it can involve itself in socially oriented projects which may have long pay-off periods . |
| 18 | Helmut Bradl has yet to win his first GP but he surely does n't have long to wait . |
| 19 | In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait . |
| 20 | She would n't have long to wait . |
| 21 | We did not have long to wait . |
| 22 | She says at her age , she might not have long to enjoy it . |
| 23 | He did not have long to wait for his answer . |
| 24 | ‘ Elephants do have long memories , ’ Daphne says , ‘ and they go into a period of deep grieving that will often last three or four months , which is when the really intensive care comes in . |
| 25 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
| 26 | She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case . |
| 27 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 28 | To our pleasant surprise we did not have long to wait before hearing that my application for transfer to Felixstowe had been successful . |
| 29 | If I did n't have long hair , everyone would think I was a boy . |
| 30 | ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . |