Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [vb pp] a long " in BNC.

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1 But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ?
2 Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’
3 It has had a long and complicated history ; but , at the present day , the form required by law for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land is both uniform and simple .
4 France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism .
5 It has come a long way in the last decade .
6 One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers .
7 It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control .
8 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
9 It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly .
10 It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added .
11 Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic .
12 It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived .
13 It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement .
14 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
15 It 's got a long garden
16 It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course .
17 Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over .
18 It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med .
19 Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month .
20 It 's come a long way
21 it 's come a long way since we had Lego .
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