Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biological research has a long and distinguished tradition in the University and the excellence of research within the Division is recognised nationally and internationally . |
| 2 | Schemes for arranging Perpetual Peace had a long and depressingly futile history . |
| 3 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 4 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 5 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 6 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 7 | The School has a long and successful tradition in team games and competitions . |
| 8 | The Training scheme has a long and proud history . |
| 9 | Basically white American rural music descended from British and Irish folk traditions , country has a long and much cherished lineage . |
| 10 | Lucca has a long and brave history and its rigid grid of streets still betray its Roman origins . |
| 11 | The use of sex crime in the media as a source of titillation has a long and inglorious past which has emerged spectacularly again in the Thatcher years . |