Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [noun] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 2 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 3 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 4 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 5 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
| 6 | The RSPCA 's policy has been to recommend changes in many fishing practices in order to reduce the possibility of pain . |