Example sentences of "have [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 2 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 3 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 5 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 7 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 8 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 9 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 10 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 11 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 12 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 13 | But once again this ‘ temporary ’ extension of power and influence has lasted a long time , and the relative weighting of Diet , Cabinet , Bureaucracy and Judiciary remains a debated issue . |
| 14 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 15 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 17 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 18 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 19 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 20 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 21 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 22 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 23 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 24 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 25 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 26 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 27 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 28 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 29 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 30 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |