Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 2 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 3 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 4 | ‘ The constructors and team-managers have enjoyed for some years now such unrealistic power and influence , have commanded so much attention , they have begun to think of themselves and their cars as the stars . |
| 5 | Birth rates in Eastern Europe have stagnated for 30 years . |
| 6 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |
| 7 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 8 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 9 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 10 | The pressure applied was the worst I have seen for 20 years . |
| 11 | Now , nobody er er , a at this stage at the er Financial Resources Committee er , challenge us on this figure , I think we will just stage of of doing arith arithmetic of adding it up , but no doubt that the staff will be comparing what going to be , er what within a but have prepared for next year with what we 're supposed to do this year and ours is an increase of another percent . |
| 12 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 13 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 14 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 15 | Q I 'm 34 and have suffered for several years from intermittent burning pains in my knees , which often keep me awake . |
| 16 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 17 | A team of 24 firemen who have operated for 17 years without pay and raised the money for their own equipment are the most recent winners of the Guinness Stout Effort Award in Malaysia . |
| 18 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 19 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 20 | I only mention it because he had the decency to say that Leeds currently have the best midfield in the country , and have had for 4–5 years . |
| 21 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 22 | It grew out of the teaching of stylistics to undergraduates at Lancaster , which and I have shared for several years . |
| 23 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 24 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 25 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 26 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 27 | We in the childrens services have known for two years that something more must be done and we must pay our staff more . |
| 28 | Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years . |
| 29 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |
| 30 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |