Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable .
2 She wore a dark grey hat taken from the store on her last day as owner , and that was 17 years ago , and a plain grey scarf round her throat , and leather gloves that had stood a long test of time .
3 He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’
4 They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what .
5 And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost .
6 This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up .
7 But archaeology has shown us much , and will show much more , of the history of these places before the documents are plentiful — and has cast a long shadow in the process over early medieval Italian towns , where comparable studies are less advanced than in Britain .
8 There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot .
9 Christophe was extremely fit and used to the 100 per cent humidity , and had learnt a long time back to carry the absolute minimum — a battered still camera and two oranges for lunch — for a full day in the forest .
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