Example sentences of "have a [adv] long history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Direct perception by psychics of energy manifestations in the landscape has a very long history . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , the interest of neurophysiologists has a considerably longer history . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Beginning with efforts to rid Britain herself of slaves , traversing the abolition and emancipation campaigns and the less dramatic struggle to suppress the international trade in slaves and assist liberation in foreign countries , British abolitionists had an exceptionally long history as reformers . |
| 6 | Sociology is a relatively new discipline or subject , although the issues examined by sociologists and the explanations put forward have a much longer history . |
| 7 | The buildings occupied by the Victoria Centre are more typical of special units and have a much longer history . |
| 8 | Needless to add , these processes ( and , more arguably , the forms of behaviour to which they give rise ) have a far longer history than any particular society or mode of production . |