Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Select Committee has made serious allegations about interference in its important work , is not it worrying that it has taken quite so long to make any progress in dealing with its complaint ? |
| 2 | He says he thinks the case has taken far too long and too many animals have suffered . |
| 3 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 4 | The subsequent decline has lasted nearly as long |
| 5 | Rather than pile all the bodies into one large mass grave , Davis had had his men dig serried rows of shallow graves and lay the bodies into them as they were , without coffins , which would have taken far too long to make . |