Example sentences of "have [art] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We 've a very long way to go . ’ |
| 32 | The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade . |
| 33 | Fortunately we had a doctor in our congregation who er was s had some knowledge of psychiatry and he had a fairly long session with him , just the two of them . |
| 34 | Beginning with efforts to rid Britain herself of slaves , traversing the abolition and emancipation campaigns and the less dramatic struggle to suppress the international trade in slaves and assist liberation in foreign countries , British abolitionists had an exceptionally long history as reformers . |
| 35 | Diplodocus , in fact , reached 28 metres in length and had an extraordinarily long neck and whip-like tail . |
| 36 | BETWEEN twenty and thirty million years ago a new sort of mammal evolved that had an unusually long nose . |
| 37 | Most kids have a pretty long list : ‘ Please may I have a Barbie doll with her van and a oops a daisy doll hands down games bensing babys teddy bears leggo my dolley suprise hungry hippoes . ’ |
| 38 | One of the problems they face , however , is that hotels have a relatively long pay-back period . |
| 39 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 40 | Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens . |
| 41 | Where you have a fairly long shelf , it is wise to add a horizontal back support . |
| 42 | But both research and theory into the structure and mechanisms of conversation have a very long way to go . |
| 43 | I think we still have a very long way to go erm but |
| 44 | Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species . |
| 45 | For analogue sound-recording , experience has shown that the metal masters used in the process of pressing disc copies have a very long life . |
| 46 | Earth science papers have a very long period of use , compared to physics or engineering , but there is variation between sub-disciplines . |
| 47 | It 's definitely a possession of other people , I have a very long list of things I want to do . ’ |
| 48 | Such horses often have a very long coat of hair , a ‘ malnutrition coat ’ , which the horse grows against cold , as it does not have the normal layer of fat under its skin to protect it . |
| 49 | I have an extraordinarily long arm . ’ |