Example sentences of "fought a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over the mountain in Kentucky is Harlan County , where in 1973 the miners fought a long and bitter strike . |
| 2 | So has Mr Sununu , who as governor of New Hampshire fought a long battle with the greens to open the Seabrook nuclear plant . |
| 3 | In 1832 at the Pierre 's Hole rendezvous , the Nez Perce fought a long and decisive battle alongside the Americans against some transient Blackfoot . |
| 4 | However , as a result of a case in which a determined executive fought a long battle through the courts , the position now appears to be more complicated than was once thought . |
| 5 | At Friends of the Earth , Jonathan Porritt similarly fought a long and largely successful battle to demonstrate that efficiency and negotiation with the opposition do n't have to mean sell-out . |
| 6 | Nigel 's father , former Lord Chancellor Lord Havers , was Attorney General when former spy Peter Wright was trying to publish his book Spycatcher and Havers senior fought a long battle on behalf of the British Government to ban the book . |
| 7 | Ralph Glaber reports that Cnut fought a long war against Malcolm and the Scots , that they were eventually reconciled through Emma and Richard of Normandy , and that he received Malcolm 's ( otherwise unknown ) son from the baptismal font . |
| 8 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 9 | Her father , Ron Smith fought a long campaign for the investigation to be heard in this country . |