Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 2 | Well look how we get do n't we , when er we 've gone too long with shower of rain |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 4 | In this study we have shown that long term ( 18 months ) ingestion of 133 g/kg dietary fibre resulted in a modest but significant increase in cellular proliferation in the crypts of the proximal colon but not the distal colon of the rat compared with an intake of 17 g/kg dietary fibre . |
| 5 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 6 | Erm a lot of us are bothered by eyebrows some of us have got really long coarse hair that grow in the eyebrows and we take those out as well . |