Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir David is a long term supporter of Save The Children and has sat for many years on the industry and commerce group . |
| 2 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
| 3 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 4 | But eventually she persuaded us she meant it and we went and it was an invaluable experience meeting not only our missionary partner but the people among whom she lives and and works and has done for many years . |
| 5 | When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years . |
| 6 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 7 | He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’ |
| 8 | discussing the prospects of university cricket at that time wrote : ‘ The young Australian S. M. J. Woods , the present captain , is far and away the best fast bowler Cambridge has had for many years . |
| 9 | Again , that is not a haphazard system , but one which our legislation has recognised for many years under successive Governments . |
| 10 | The Council has recognised for many years the intimate connection between economic performance and educational attainment . |
| 11 | Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years . |
| 12 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
| 13 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 14 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 15 | The Full Plans method is the old system that has existed for many years , whereby detailed plans of your proposal are submitted in duplicate , along with an application form . |
| 16 | The same arrangement has existed for many years with the USAF 's 170 F-111 bomber aircraft which fly from Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire and Lakenheath in Suffolk . |
| 17 | The two gods at whose shrines she 'd sacrificed for many years . |
| 18 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 19 | Ten years later , Iran had occupied the three Gulf islands belonging to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah , having maintained for many years a claim to Bahrain ( although this was dropped in 1970 ) . |
| 20 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 21 | As a result , the controversy which had raged for many years about the date of the introduction of the denarius was resolved . |
| 22 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 23 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 24 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 25 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 26 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 27 | Francis tells of a Canadian discus thrower , Rob Gray , who had worked for many years to reach the 58 metre mark . |
| 28 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 29 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 30 | Kate had worked for many years with her firm , finishing as head of the sales department . |