Example sentences of "years [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 2 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 3 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 4 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 5 | For two years we have been refocussing the organisation of the profession and defining our key objectives . |
| 6 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 7 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 8 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 9 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 10 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 11 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 12 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |