Example sentences of "it have a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has a long half life and may be administered either orally or intravenously .
2 It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century .
3 Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better .
4 The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it .
5 It has a long history and in 1843 twelve Bronze Age artefacts and two portions of a sword were found whilst digging a drain .
6 Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour .
7 The blue-flowered garden species of this genus ( N. x faassenii ) , also called catmint , is highly decorative , with its grey leaves and long-lasting flower spikes , but N. cataria is the true herb , of little known but considerable medical use , for which it has a long history , back to Gerard 's day and earlier , though it is not so used nowadays .
8 It has a long history of urban culture as a market centre for a pastoral and agricultural hinterland , as a garrison town and a centre of services and administration , and it is equally placed as the gateway to the Mittelland .
9 If a WC is blocked , a large sink plunger may work ( do n't use one with a metal flange which could damage the pan ) , provided it has a long handle ; alternatively , use a length of drain rod fitted with a rubber disc .
10 Although this matting is new in the UK , it has a long record or success in countries where ceramic floor tiles are more widely used .
11 It has a long record of allocating high proportions of its annual budgets to defence , even appearing in the market for a submarine fleet in 1986 .
12 It has a long body with overlapping scales , with a concentration of fins at the hind end .
13 The building is an exciting example of 1909 — lo Art Deco , using a wide range of materials including brick , and it has a long glass gallery at roof level .
14 Over one-hundred feet long , with ninety-four teeth , it had a long tail and four webbed paws .
15 It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east .
16 It had a competition sponsored by McCartney to find a script for a movie , a declaration by Harry Fainlight about the ( still legal ) pleasures of LSD , it had letters , and , specifically , it had a long epistle from John Wilcock in New York , defining what was supposed to be going on .
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