Example sentences of "have a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to produce beers quickly which , because they are sterile and have a long ‘ shelf life ’ , are also highly profitable . |
| 2 | Dried pastas have a shelf-life in excess of a year and frozen pastas also have a long shelf-life under proper conditions . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I have a long memory . |
| 4 | The aim is to produce beers that are sterile , have a long shelf life and are highly profitable . |
| 5 | ‘ I have a long standing arrangement to meet Mr Anderson this week . |
| 6 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 7 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 8 | Such associations of sexual deviance and political threat have a long history sedimented into our language and culture . |
| 9 | They have a long tradition of solid trade union organisation . |
| 10 | Why , I still have a long workout in my net every morning even before our first cuppa ginseng . |
| 11 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 12 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 13 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 14 | Left unprocessed , they have a long storage life if kept dry . |
| 15 | These have a long shelf life and can be served hot or cold , making them a very good standby to have in the cupboard . |
| 16 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 17 | I 'm fifty and have a long way to go . |
| 18 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 19 | The old woman looked at her speculatively , ‘ I have a long memory . |
| 20 | Add the possible problem with the wart , her upset at being all but mobbed by the crowd on a very hot day , and her apparently being carried off a true course in the straight by Achilles , and you have a long menu of excuses or explanations . |
| 21 | You have a long way to go to win them back . |
| 22 | But markets provide useful competition with local banks , which have a long way to go before they learn to allocate capital efficiently . |
| 23 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 24 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 25 | Marine sponges have a long fossil record from the Cambrian onwards , and at many localities they are abundant enough to be important rock formers . |
| 26 | In the Carboniferous and Permian the insects were highly diverse , and there is still debate over how closely these forms are related to our living fauna : some forms , like the cockroaches , undoubtedly have a long history . |
| 27 | Such calcareous algae ( see Plate 52 ) have a long history , extending back into the Precambrian , and they are still numerous today . |
| 28 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 29 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 30 | The frailties of the holiday romance have a long history . |