Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 2 | Membership had brought several years of sustained economic growth , with a high level of foreign investment . |
| 3 | I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before . |
| 4 | Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 5 | The waning of enthusiasm for higher education had begun several years before , but this was the first time there had been fewer applicants than places offered . |
| 6 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |
| 7 | Although work on the NEW DEVELOPMENT had begun several years before , with much champagne bottle breaking and blue ribbon cutting , nothing very much had happened since . |
| 8 | Later , Julia discovered that the German army in question had been in South Africa and that Colonel Scotland 's appointment had ended some years before the Great War . |
| 9 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 10 | My father and mother had died some years before and I lived with my brother Rabah , my sister Rabiha , my wife Sulafa and my baby son . |