Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
2 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
3 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
10 | Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain . |
11 | Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium . |
12 | Elves and Dwarves have a long history of hate yet Legolas and Gimli become friends because they travel in Frodo 's company together . |
13 | In Germany , where discounters have a long history , they control a quarter of the market . |
14 | Marine sponges have a long fossil record from the Cambrian onwards , and at many localities they are abundant enough to be important rock formers . |
15 | Other features : the meals have a long shelf life and are light and compact to carry . |
16 | Today 's graduates have a long way to go to match the service of the RAF 's longest serving ex-apprentice . |
17 | These cases hardly ever go to court , but publishers have a long record of paying up and shutting up . |
18 | The concepts of crystal settling and convection in magma chambers have a long history r2–6 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | boxes have a longer column but the box internals are similar . |
21 | Second , women have a longer expectation of life than men . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Those who are not prepared to run their practices as a business must confront the fact that their practices have no long term future . |
24 | 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 . |