Example sentences of "a long record of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A carpenter , he had a long record of hard work , and his family were dependent on his income . |
| 2 | These cases hardly ever go to court , but publishers have a long record of paying up and shutting up . |
| 3 | We had a long record of significant invention and development of such items as polyester fabric ( Terylene and Crimplene ) but were we really capable of producing to order , so to speak , a constant family of new variations on a theme ? |
| 4 | MITI has a long record of concern with the dangers of excess capacity for capital intensive sectors . |
| 5 | Curzon had a long record of devoted although doubtfully successful public service . |
| 6 | He managed to attract to the new Achimota college a remarkable principal , Alek Fraser , who had a long record of educating the leaders of society in Ceylon . |
| 7 | Audley senior was a minor baron , with lands in Gloucestershire as well as Oxfordshire and a long record of service to the Crown . |
| 8 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 9 | If you study textbooks or correlation charts , such as those produced by the Geological Society of America and the Geological Society of London , you come inevitably to the conclusion that the stratigraphical column in any one place is a long record of sedimentation with occasional gaps . |
| 10 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 11 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 12 | The worst of the trouble occurred in Bihar , a state with a long record of political violence . |
| 13 | It has a long record of allocating high proportions of its annual budgets to defence , even appearing in the market for a submarine fleet in 1986 . |