Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people .
2 You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’
3 Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society .
4 As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain .
5 They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time .
6 ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison .
7 If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest .
8 This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time .
9 We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry .
10 We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim .
11 ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away .
12 But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’
13 It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’
14 ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time .
15 That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references .
16 Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university .
17 You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time .
18 We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment .
19 Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly .
20 Residents have campaigned for a long time for a speed restriction and traffic calming in Skerne Park , which has a high accident rate .
21 Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) .
22 In calling for a vote on European union , TODAY is speaking up for what most of us have wanted for a long time .
23 Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth .
24 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 .
25 This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time .
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