Example sentences of "they have a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently 21 per cent of the population of Great Britain report that they have a long standing limiting illness ( 19 per cent of males and 22 per cent of females ) . |
| 2 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 4 | They have a long way to go . |
| 5 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 6 | They have a long agenda that includes the GATT trade talks and a host of foreign issues , including Iraq , Bosnia , Russia and , to British embarrassment , Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers . |
| 8 | They have a long history of use in planning practice , there is a wide measure of consensus about their use in control and , where covered by policy , it tends to be as broad , flexible statements in structure or local plans , amplified in detail in supplementary planning guidance . |
| 9 | Left unprocessed , they have a long storage life if kept dry . |
| 10 | They have a long tradition of solid trade union organisation . |
| 11 | Because of their composition , multiplicity of functions , procedures and restricted access to information , modern legislatures are limited in their struggle with bureaucracy even when , like the UK Parliament , they have a longer history , stronger tradition , higher status within the political culture and more central constitutional significance than most . |