Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why Kenneth Baker has promised longer franchises for operators prepared to install systems that rely on switched-star technology . |
| 2 | Once collected and properly packaged , these precious cargoes had to survive long voyages , often in the intimate care of the ship 's captain . |
| 3 | Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them . |
| 4 | When dogs have spent long periods living outside , they do n't know indoors from outdoors , and must be taught the difference . |
| 5 | Mr Thompson said butchers would be unhappy if their meat had to travel long distances . |
| 6 | Development of an All Wales Strategy has involved long discussions at county level between social services department personnel , representatives from voluntary organisations , parents and sometimes consumers . |
| 7 | Her father had worked long hours for the convent in his time , he had paid many times over in advance for his child to be housed and educated , had he but known it . |
| 8 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 9 | If risk-averse hedgers are going to transfer risks effectively to risk-averse speculators , speculators will on average have to hold long futures positions . |
| 10 | As a consequence , people have to travel long distances in search of health care . |
| 11 | Already the refs have had long meetings working out just how strict or just how lenient they are going to be . |
| 12 | In the years prior to the Second World War , a small group of pioneers had spent long periods exploring the Libyan desert in vehicles . |
| 13 | ( While the Factory Acts did not usually greatly affect book-printing , it sometimes happened with legal or government work that compositors had to work longer hours than normal to meet deadlines . ) |
| 14 | Well her daughter 's got long boots on that has n't she ? |
| 15 | Inevitably , the rationalising of 16–19 provision , has led to more students having to travel longer distances . |
| 16 | Now all the women have got long skirts and all the blokes have got really sensible haircuts , they all do oil painting and the music they like is shite . |
| 17 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 18 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 19 | And she and her friend Betty had spent long hours together , playing tennis and squash and doing a bit of swimming . |