Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [art] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 22 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 23 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 24 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 25 | The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about . |
| 26 | It seemed to have lasted a long time and there had been no glory for me in it . |
| 27 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 28 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 29 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 30 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |