Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such flows approach asymptotically to the self-preserving form , although often very slowly ; for reasons to be seen in Section 21.4 , turbulent flows have a long ‘ memory ’ of upstream conditions . |
| 2 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 3 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 4 | Marine sponges have a long fossil record from the Cambrian onwards , and at many localities they are abundant enough to be important rock formers . |
| 5 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 6 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 7 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 8 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 9 | The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents . |
| 10 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 11 | Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant . |
| 12 | Indeed , the notion that the behaviour of financial institutions needs to be taken into account when examining the efficacy of monetary controls has a long , although perhaps not popular , pedigree . |
| 13 | Although most nomadic tribes have a long history of weaving rugs specifically for trade , a number of items coming onto the western market may well have been made originally for personal use . |
| 14 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 15 | On May 18th 60 members had a long session with Howard Pastor , the White House head of congressional liaison , trying to convince him of the need for further cuts . |
| 16 | The idea of New Towns has a long pedigree , but it received its twentieth-century fillip through the garden city movement ( Osborn and Whittick , 1963 ) . |