Example sentences of "[adv] have a long history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 2 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 3 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |
| 4 | The Andes also have a long history of human occupation which has transformed the landscape . |
| 5 | The Orkneys and Shetland also have a long history of independence in local government terms and pride themselves on their Scandinavian roots and their distinctiveness from Scotland . |
| 6 | If these changes in family structure and parental roles are of recent origin , current political dimensions of child care policy , which have rarely been more prominent than today , surely have a longer history . |
| 7 | In the Carboniferous and Permian the insects were highly diverse , and there is still debate over how closely these forms are related to our living fauna : some forms , like the cockroaches , undoubtedly have a long history . |