Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
| 2 | This ended a long history of credit controls in Britain since the war . |
| 3 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 4 | The marjorams all have a long history of use since classical times , and were more popular in the Middle Ages in Britain than thyme . |
| 5 | With new exams approaching , it is timely to take a longer view of what the pass standard entails and of how students might be helped to attain it . |
| 6 | In both cases the men concerned had a long history of previous convictions , with the killer already in jail following the deaths of two other boys . |
| 7 | All three major rail unions are affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour party , and the NUR in particular has a long tradition of sponsoring Labour MPs ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) , ‘ equalled only by the miners ’ union' ( Eaton and Gill 1981 : 41 ) . |
| 8 | It is not necessary to write a long report of each happening but the essential details such as date , time , detail and signature of person making the entry . |
| 9 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 10 | It seems natural to assume that as in the twenty-first century more people live to be very old , more of them will necessarily make heavier demands on health and social services ; that people who die in their nineties experience a longer period of dependency and illness before death than those who die in their seventies . |