Example sentences of "[noun pl] have long been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These sectors had long been in decline — reflecting the decline of the UK as a world economic power — so the people of these regions did not have the buying power to attract the new consumer goods industries . |
| 2 | Chinese rugs have long been in tune with Western colour schemes , and a growing number of Anatolian groups are now producing traditional and Caucasian designs in much softer shades . |
| 3 | These halfway conditions have long been of interest , though until recently mainly among psychoanalysts or other writers outside mainstream psychiatry . |
| 4 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 5 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |