Example sentences of "have not [verb] [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 2 | Partly because of such difficulties the development of meaningful and quantifiable output measures has not occurred for many areas of departmental activity . |
| 3 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 4 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 5 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 6 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 7 | In part , as the UNCTC considers , this is due to a ‘ widespread impression that service industries consist largely of technologically stagnant , small-scale personal services based on unskilled labour working with little capital in ways that have not changed for many years ’ . |
| 8 | She says I have n't spoken to many wives but I was horrified , everyone is very upset . |