Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [art] [adv] long " in BNC.

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1 Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control .
2 Most kids have a pretty long list : ‘ Please may I have a Barbie doll with her van and a oops a daisy doll hands down games bensing babys teddy bears leggo my dolley suprise hungry hippoes . ’
3 Beginning with efforts to rid Britain herself of slaves , traversing the abolition and emancipation campaigns and the less dramatic struggle to suppress the international trade in slaves and assist liberation in foreign countries , British abolitionists had an exceptionally long history as reformers .
4 One of the problems they face , however , is that hotels have a relatively long pay-back period .
5 Earth science papers have a very long period of use , compared to physics or engineering , but there is variation between sub-disciplines .
6 For analogue sound-recording , experience has shown that the metal masters used in the process of pressing disc copies have a very long life .
7 And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens .
8 Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species .
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