Example sentences of "[adv] have the long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
2 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
3 | The earliest cephalopods found as fossils are nautiloids and they also have the longest history , because the living pearly Nautilus belongs to the same group . |
4 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
5 | Where had the long silences gone , Molly wondered , into which she used to retreat in the company of her parents ? |