Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 2 | The court heard that 5 psychiatric reports had been prepared at Broadmoor ; Gore was schizoid , suffering from a psychopathic disorder , requiring treatment for many years to come . |
| 3 | She worked as a tailoress with the Tailoring Guild for many years and had made lots of good friends amongst her work-mates . |
| 4 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 5 | Lack of travel concessions are another area involving burdens for many pensioners who can not afford cars and have to rely on public transport . |
| 6 | ‘ We are against the late opening of betting shops for many reasons , but primarily because we do n't want to endanger the livelihood of those who depend on greyhound racing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 8 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 9 | He met his promise to reduce Federal government activity by transferring responsibility for many welfare and social programmes to the states and the cities . |
| 10 | In the last 40 years an estimated 25 000 acres of these scarred landscapes have been flooded , providing important nesting and roosting sites for many waterbirds . |
| 11 | Enterprise zones , therefore , introduced the concept of the simplified planning regime , intended to speed up planning applications and to give deemed planning consent for many developments . |