Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 2 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 3 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 4 | The same two civilisations also developed mummification , having discovered how long bodies could be preserved in their dry air . |
| 5 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 6 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 7 | Think I 've got quite long arms for a short body . |
| 8 | ( Opposite , bottom ) Many prey species have developed unusually long legs and strange forms of locomotion as refinements of their fleeing behaviour . |
| 9 | It is because collecting the refuse of houses in close proximity , such as terraced houses in the city of Sheffield , costs only one third of what it costs to collect the refuse of houses in the posh south-west of Sheffield , where the houses are spaced out and the collection men have to walk up long drives . |
| 10 | walks down about eight o'clock , talk about long legs , she 's got really long legs right , this one . |