Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a long time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
2 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
3 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
4 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
5 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
6 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
7 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
8 | It does n't have to take a long time , it 's up to us here and now . |