Example sentences of "[noun] have the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
| 2 | SWELTERWEIGHT Fender Champ 25SE Fender 's new Champ 25SE has the longest reach , boasts the biggest biceps and packs the heftiest punch of any previous incarnation of the model . |
| 3 | Nothing about " what it is like " to see blue or red tells us which light has the longer wavelength . |
| 4 | Red light has the longest wavelength and violet the shortest , with orange , yellow , green and blue in between . |
| 5 | The difference from RP can be appreciated quite easily by reference to the pair can , ca n't : can has the long back vowel predicted by the single nasal environment , whereas can ‘ t has the short front vowel predicted by the nasal + voiceless obstruent environment ( compare also dance , ranch , etc. , which are short , front ) . |
| 6 | JAPAN 'S economic miracle has contributed to its population having the longest life expectancy in the world and Britain 's social and health policy makers could learn from it , two researchers claimed yesterday . |
| 7 | The Diplodocus had the longest neck of all the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest . |
| 9 | The inhabitants of this tiny country next to Austria have the longest life expectancy in the world , with women living to an average 82.6 years , and males to 77.6 . |
| 10 | Despite my files tellin me this month has the longest list of genre titles , it is the one with least to offer . |
| 11 | She had trapped a fellow-student at Cambridge — ‘ Brian had the longest hair in college , ’ she chirped admiringly , ‘ and as soon as we 'd graduated , we got married — for fun . ’ |
| 12 | The US has the longest tradition of natural gas use of any country in the world . |
| 13 | There was Britain — the country with which Iran had the longest association and with which many Iranians had an almost neurotic relationship . |
| 14 | Ions with the lowest energy ( E ) observed on any one field line have the longest time-of-flight , t , and were therefore the first injected : they crossed the magnetopause at X , a distance d from the satellite ( where is the ion mass ) . |
| 15 | Cardiac surgery has the longest waiting list in Northern Ireland , but every effort is being made to reduce it , including the purchase of operations in Britain . |
| 16 | Each city has its own specialities — Rome has the longest shopping street in Europe . |
| 17 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 18 | This region has the longer history of continuous occupation by tundra , for at no time during the post-glacial period was it invaded by forest . |