Example sentences of "[vb base] for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This restoration has been an off-again-on-again project for several years but recently work has resumed on the Bearcat , which will be the only two seat example flying . |
| 2 | The English monks seem for some years to have been able to resist the discipline of Lanfranc . |
| 3 | When a famous campaign is changed , it is still possible to carry out research on advertising recall for several years afterwards and find a substantial , sometimes even dominant , proportion of what is recalled being the old campaign . |
| 4 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 5 | Is it because you are expected to express good wishes or thanks , or because you are old and wise and expected to give advice , or because you are an extrovert and known for being humorous , because you are closely related to the other members of the family , or because you are a friend who has known the bride and groom for many years ? |
| 6 | The best thing about Christmas is buying well thought out gifts that will give pleasure and use for many years to come . |
| 7 | He will be badly injured but will return to the Highlands and live for many years . ’ |
| 8 | Slithering through damp meadows at night , wriggling over rocks and up waterfalls , even finding their way into mountain streams , ten thousand feet up in the Alps — in these resting spots , they settle down and live for many years . |
| 9 | Under good conditions they will , thrive , reproduce and live for many years . |
| 10 | Over half live for many years in one hostel . |
| 11 | ‘ My mother was a maid in Crystal Springs House for many years , and I used to come here sometimes as a child . |
| 12 | The first subs offer for many years — do n't miss it ! |
| 13 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 14 | Our recent run of outstanding new business figures will continue to provide a growing quality earnings stream for many years to come . |
| 15 | The solvents persist for many years , and can take a long time to be degraded or removed ; the good news is that , unlike some other forms of pollution , spillages of volatile organochlorines are apparently becoming rarer as awareness of the consequences of poor practice increases . |
| 16 | The services of ISCO can be called upon by those who enrol for several years after the pupil have left school . |
| 17 | Having not heard either work for some years , I was pleasantly surprised to be reminded what a delightfully unaffected piece the Missa choralis , in particular , really is . |
| 18 | This should provide enough new information to keep astronomers busy for many years to come , those in the UK being particularly well placed to follow up the survey with work on UKIRT on Hawaii . |
| 19 | Electrical and magnetic units , for example , could be put into centimetres , grams and seconds ; and doing this kind of work kept physicists busy for many years . |
| 20 | I have for many years enjoyed dabbling with valve amplifiers , usually modifying old ones , but all the information I have has to be gleaned from circuit diagrams or an old Mullard handbook containing a selection of designs ( I 'm sure you know the one ! ) . |
| 21 | Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas , and in early 1989 , their worst fears were realised . |
| 22 | It 's not unusual to find schools that have for many years undertaken a job analysis for all staff including ancillary assistants , caretaker and nursery nurses . |
| 23 | Architects have for many years been subjected to both legal and self-regulation . |
| 24 | THE US , Soviet Union , Britain , France and China have for many years had huge arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons in the form of ballistic missiles and manned bombers . |
| 25 | Voluntary codes of practice are still widely accepted in Britain , and public authorities like the BBC , the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the Cable Television Authority , the Advertising Standards Authority , and the British Board of Film Classification ( the BBFC ) have for many years been entrusted with responsibility for media standards . |
| 26 | Field trials have for many years been concerned with finding a clone less susceptible to frost and this was initially seen as a way of upgrading some of the frost-prone vineyards of the Marne Valley which are traditionally planted with the hardier Pinot Meunier . |
| 27 | Although academic psychologists have been reluctant to use this notion to cross the boundary between the normal and the abnormal , clinicians have for many years used a similar concept . |
| 28 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 29 | Local authorities have for many years enjoyed a power to purchase land compulsorily in order to carry out their statutory functions relating to highways or general development . |
| 30 | Persons disabled by war or in the armed forces and those disabled at work as a result of injury or prescribed industrial disease have for many years enjoyed reasonable financial provision . |