Example sentences of "a long experience of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them . |
| 2 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |
| 3 | Almost to a man and woman they are , as it happens , extremely sophisticated individuals , many with a long experience of political activity outside Parliament and several with long-held and well-thought-out anxieties about the course which events were taking in Europe . |
| 4 | A long experience of working in the health care market puts Wimpey on top of the waiting list when it comes to hospital projects . |
| 5 | A long experience of management problems with a child , for instance , increased the chance that a crisis such as the child 's arrest for a criminal offence would provoke an episode of depression in the mother . |