Example sentences of "[adj] have a [adj] history [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
| 2 | The marjorams all have a long history of use since classical times , and were more popular in the Middle Ages in Britain than thyme . |
| 3 | In both cases the men concerned had a long history of previous convictions , with the killer already in jail following the deaths of two other boys . |
| 4 | All the patients had complained of chronic epigastric pain for years before diagnosis and eight had a past history of recurrent gastric ulcer , gastrointestinal bleeding , or gastritis . |
| 5 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |