Example sentences of "had a long tradition [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 2 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 3 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 4 | The town and its surrounding rural communities already had a long tradition of Dissent , but just over 20 miles to the east the situation in Doncaster was very different . |
| 5 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |