Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 2 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | This fish has a long , flattened body covered in large , iridescent scales that reflect the light beautifully . |
| 4 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 5 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 6 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 7 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 8 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 9 | This plant has a long leaf form which is found in the lowlands where the temperature is substantially high . |
| 10 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The position with the County Council is that while has no long term debt , it has never satisfied the tests of central government , for the capital control regime . |
| 13 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 14 | The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements . |
| 15 | 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 . |