Example sentences of "have a long life " in BNC.

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1 If properly fitted to the shaft the boot has a long life .
2 The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it .
3 The second must be that he or she has a long life .
4 You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this .
5 I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best .
6 We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter .
7 May God bless you and may you have a long life . ’
8 ‘ May your mother also have a long life . ’
9 Then again , after Linda Lusardi and Tonya in just eight months , health and fitness advisors do n't have a long life expectancy on GMTV .
10 Ruth Hill-Williams writes : J.P.M.Millar had a long life ( obituary , December 7 ) , and his death signals the end of an era .
11 Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III .
12 The ‘ direct ’ reversing Bolinder engines remained popular , however , because they were simple and easier to maintain and had a long life .
13 The mines were large and had a long life and fitted in with RTZ 's strategic objectives , he added .
14 ‘ National ’ brewers accounted for only 18 per cent of all beer production , and their brands were nearly all bottled ales , since these were more easily transported and had a longer life than cask-conditioned draught beer .
15 ‘ The foundation of my collection has always been ideas which have a long life .
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