Example sentences of "have a long record [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Colin French has a long record for animal cruelty , and there were cheers in the public gallery as he was taken away . |
2 | MITI has a long record of concern with the dangers of excess capacity for capital intensive sectors . |
3 | It has a long record of allocating high proportions of its annual budgets to defence , even appearing in the market for a submarine fleet in 1986 . |
4 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
5 | A carpenter , he had a long record of hard work , and his family were dependent on his income . |
6 | We had a long record of significant invention and development of such items as polyester fabric ( Terylene and Crimplene ) but were we really capable of producing to order , so to speak , a constant family of new variations on a theme ? |
7 | Curzon had a long record of devoted although doubtfully successful public service . |
8 | He managed to attract to the new Achimota college a remarkable principal , Alek Fraser , who had a long record of educating the leaders of society in Ceylon . |
9 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
10 | These cases hardly ever go to court , but publishers have a long record of paying up and shutting up . |