Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason the programme 's taken so long , was to find a time when he 's available . |
| 2 | But the final reconciliation has taken so long . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the reported effect on some of the older generation is to make them regret having lived so long and apologize for their need to call on more services than do younger people ( Norman 1987b ) . |
| 4 | One of the reasons that this report has taken so long to appear is that , scanning the literature arriving in my library , I kept coming across new relevant areas of work . |
| 5 | And the longer they dealt with it , the more aggravated our members could become on a shop floor , or that they could have additional disputes you know , on their hands , because of the fact that the dispute or the , the problem had lasted so long . |
| 6 | Cos his hair 's got so long , it 's longer than mine . |