Example sentences of "years [pron] have [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 2 | Generally my fish are too healthy to require treatment , but in the last few years I have been able to buy fish as they arrive in the country ( usually via the large fish shows . ) |
| 3 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 4 | Over the years we have been thankful to hear the BBC World Service in Chungking , Kuala Lumpur , Los Angeles , Guyana , Nigeria , Alaska and many other places — and that clear , calm statement of the news spoken with suave detachment in impeccable English has never ceased to satisfy . |
| 5 | In a letter to the Stanford committee on research , the faculty said : ‘ For years we have been able to tell visiting school children , student , engineers , scientists , laymen and the press that we are here to do basic research on the fundamental properties of matter and that we do not do any military work . |