Example sentences of "been a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 2 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 3 | In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) . |
| 4 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 5 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 6 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 7 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 8 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |