Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 2 | The even more extraordinary notion , that clients ' opinions could be used to reshape social work practice into a more effective intervention , and that social policy itself could be responsive to the views of its recipients , has taken even longer to achieve respectability amongst social commentators . |
| 3 | It has taken too long to persuade the police that racial attacks even exist for the press to adopt some absurd pretence to being colour-blind now . |
| 4 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 5 | One of the reasons that this report has taken so long to appear is that , scanning the literature arriving in my library , I kept coming across new relevant areas of work . |
| 6 | Oh I 've forgot to say under advisory committee , I , this has taken so long , I 've completely forgot about it . |
| 7 | Secondly , at the time when the flight from the land became a cultural European fact , a time evoked in rural England by Laurie Lee in Cider with Rosie , David Thomson witnessed the same poignant development in Ireland , but with undertones of old scores and the curious mixture of religion and politics that has taken so long to biodegrade . |
| 8 | I am sorry it has taken so long to send you a copy and return your slides . |
| 9 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 10 | But the final reconciliation has taken so long . |
| 11 | The MPs called on health boards to act quickly to ensure adequate cover in a number of important related areas and said : ‘ We are concerned that it has taken so long to achieve such important improvements in the balance of medical staffing . ’ |
| 12 | His attack on individuals had become increasingly scandalous : he described an elderly Senate colleague as " a living miracle " — the only man who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts " . |
| 13 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 14 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 15 | As Richards pointed out , the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait so long to be written shows the strength of the taboos we have inherited . |
| 16 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 17 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 18 | ‘ But it 's going to put an awful lot of island people to a lot of trouble , and it will mean many hundreds of them will have to wait even longer for jobs now . ’ |
| 19 | He wondered about making himself a hot drink but he 'd have to wait too long to drink it . |
| 20 | Well I did n't have to wait too long for you today . |
| 21 | She did not have to wait very long to find out . |
| 22 | If I 'd have been on me own I would n't have stopped bloody long . |
| 23 | ‘ Without it you 'd … you might have … you 'd have taken far longer to get well . ’ |
| 24 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 25 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 26 | Often , in the course of these , which involved a lot of wandering about among the surrounding woods and fields , we had occasion to urinate together ( it would have taken too long to go home ) and the opportunity to examine one another 's bodies . |
| 27 | The pattern of changes in structure , style , attitudes and behaviour that were eventually achieved would probably not have been possible , or would have taken significantly longer to achieve , in the absence of a critical mass of key individuals who were prepared to devote time and effort to heighten the confidence and enthusiasm of their ‘ converts ’ with their positive message . |
| 28 | Thank you for your letter of 19 May and I apologise for having taken so long to reply . |
| 29 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the reported effect on some of the older generation is to make them regret having lived so long and apologize for their need to call on more services than do younger people ( Norman 1987b ) . |