Example sentences of "have [art] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 2 | Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s . |
| 3 | Still , Germany has no very long history as a unitary state ( less than a century ) and has had three capitals since 1918 — Weimar , Berlin and Bonn . |
| 4 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 5 | Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history . |
| 6 | It has a very long neck like a duck , and the front of the body sometimes has a faint purple tinge . |
| 7 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 8 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
| 9 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 10 | sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen . |
| 11 | Britain has a fairly long winter , and I know of only a few very hardy souls who are willing to go gold prospecting during this season . |
| 12 | As West has 6 Hearts , he is likely to be short in all the other suits , and with East returning the King of Clubs , there is a suggestion that he has a fairly long suit . |
| 13 | British documentary photography has an extremely long and impressive pedigree . |
| 14 | British documentary photography has an extremely long and impressive pedigree . |
| 15 | It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more . |
| 16 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 17 | ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had a very long and happy life without sex . |
| 19 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 20 | ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’ |
| 21 | He 's had a very long and trying ordeal , and apart from his physical injuries he 's had the cold and damp to deal with too , so his body 's had a pretty severe challenge . |
| 22 | Because of their traditional background they are easy to handle and have a notably long life : one cow produced and reared 30 calves of her own . |
| 23 | A good resolution before you exchange contracts would be to stand back and have a really long look at the wood ! |
| 24 | Version 6.0 of Pick will not have a very long life , however — by the summer , versions 6.1 will be in beta test . |
| 25 | Gold and silver coins tended to be used as bullion and their metal value was an important consideration in a time of inflation , but a base metal coin could have a very long life . |
| 26 | Does n't have a very long |
| 27 | You did n't have a very long sleep did you ? |
| 28 | A basic foodstuff , such as the common loaf of bread or a packet of ground coffee , will have a relatively long life cycle . |
| 29 | After all , Germany does have a disturbingly long tradition of attempts to expand and dominate militarily the European continent . |
| 30 | Partnership may turn out to have a relatively long life but are not formed on that expectation . |