Example sentences of "[verb] a long history [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 2 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 3 | She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters : from her mother dying when she was six years old , through to the latest traumas of seeing her cat killed by a car and being made redundant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | THE various parish schools of St Mary 's Cleator , have a long history of promises , delays , cancellations , fresh starts and demolitions . |