Example sentences of "[conj] have a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 2 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 3 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 4 | The competition will tell you that their product is fresh , takes advantage of advances in program writing and has a long development life ahead of it . |
| 5 | Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 7 | The interior is finely preserved ( 263 ) and has a long nave , with barrel vaulted aisles , broad transepts and a fine apse with groined vault . |
| 8 | It covers the period from the Norman Conquest to the present day , and has a long section on suggestions for further reading . |
| 9 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 10 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 11 | The okapi , according to Gill Venner , is shy and elusive and has a long gestation period . ) |
| 12 | By late March 1019 he is likely to have been in Winchester : S 956 was granted in the royal presence to the New Minster during the first week of Easter , and has a long witness list which no doubt represents the gathering of the Easter court . |
| 13 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 14 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 15 | She cleaned off her smudged make-up , filled the bath and had a long soak . |
| 16 | The ‘ direct ’ reversing Bolinder engines remained popular , however , because they were simple and easier to maintain and had a long life . |
| 17 | The mines were large and had a long life and fitted in with RTZ 's strategic objectives , he added . |
| 18 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 19 | Buck strode up to his ball and had a long consultation with his caddy . |
| 20 | Robin Prentice , who died during the winter , became the Scottish Cricket Union 's Administrator in 1982 , retiring in 1990 and had a long association with the game in Scotland and as a wicket-keeper batsman with Uddingston in the Western Union . |
| 21 | He also developed an interest in whales , worked at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples and the Plymouth Laboratory , and had a long association with the Marine Biological Association . |
| 22 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 23 | I 'm fifty and have a long way to go . |
| 24 | All they told me was that if I were on the public payroll I 'd take a ride out to Westminster Drive and have a long talk with Mrs. Laura Channing . |