Example sentences of "this [noun] have [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | This fish has a long , flattened body covered in large , iridescent scales that reflect the light beautifully . |
| 3 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 4 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 5 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 6 | Large and secretive , this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres . |
| 7 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 8 | This plant has a long leaf form which is found in the lowlands where the temperature is substantially high . |