Example sentences of "having long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the timpani signalled a perky rapprochement of the Chichester Psalms and the Young Person 's Guide , having long ago left Berg behind , there was every reason to be grateful for the consistent vigour of the solo writing and to admire Zukerman 's unstinted flair in putting it across . |
| 2 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 3 | Along each side of the long window hung a heavy brocade curtain , the colour having long since disappeared , but which still retained an air of quality . |
| 4 | Mrs Beavis was existing in an atmosphere of relative quiet , the boisterous echoes of her rumbustious family having long since died away . |
| 5 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
| 6 | This book grew out of an exploration of the roofed classical sites of classical antiquity from the point of view of an engineer the wooden roofing of course having long since disintegrated . |
| 7 | Each course involves still further political damage to Major , his earlier Teflon coating having long since worn through . |