Example sentences of "has a long [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 2 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 3 | ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ . |
| 4 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 5 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |