Example sentences of "[noun sg] had a long history " in BNC.

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1 Films were cast for an international market in the Hollywood of the 1920s ; and international press syndication had a long history .
2 That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law .
3 Indeed , the over spill factor had a longer history than a concern with post-coal industrial restructuring , since the plans of the 1940s and early 1950s had assumed stable employment in coal .
4 On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation .
5 The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times .
6 The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper .
7 The base had a long history as home to the packers , as well as medical and catering units .
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