Example sentences of "have existed for a long " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence .
3 Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ?
4 Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries .
5 As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time .
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