Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably the most important match either team has faced for a long time . |
| 3 | The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time . |
| 4 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 5 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 6 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 7 | This is one of the best new recordings of Honegger 's music to have appeared for a long time . |
| 8 | Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |