Example sentences of "have lived [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | His attack on individuals had become increasingly scandalous : he described an elderly Senate colleague as " a living miracle " — the only man who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts " . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the reported effect on some of the older generation is to make them regret having lived so long and apologize for their need to call on more services than do younger people ( Norman 1987b ) . |
| 3 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 4 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 5 | I do n't know how you 've lived so long ! ’ |
| 6 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 7 | ‘ You have lived so long in your fortress that you have forgotten , even if you ever knew . |