Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] many years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 2 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 3 | Mr Major told the Commons yesterday the EC economies ‘ are not remotely ready for one currency and I believe they will not be ready if they every will be for many years . ’ |
| 4 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 5 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |