Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He wondered about making himself a hot drink but he 'd have to wait too long to drink it . |
| 7 | Well I did n't have to wait too long for you today . |
| 8 | She did not have to wait very long to find out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 're not going to have to wait much longer to learn which country and town have won AST Research Inc 's long-promised European personal computer plant . |
| 11 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 12 | When he heard that he had to wait still longer for his dinner , he began to growl and lash his tail and curl his whiskers in a most terrible manner causing the poor farmer 's knees to knock together with terror . |
| 13 | had to live so long . |
| 14 | But some people have to wait much longer for operations in some places than in others and the system can be insensitive to individual needs . |
| 15 | And of course what Mr does not refer to in any of his submissions n is the need for new settlements in that area to be have to have very long access roads . |
| 16 | I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up . |