Example sentences of "have over the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if Mr Major is at heart opposed to greater union , Britain 's policy is likely to be affected by the institutional pressures of Whitehall , which has over the years committed itself to the pro-European line . |
| 2 | This has been a minority view for 15 years or more , but one kept alive by the persistent efforts of Chip Arp , of the California Institute of Technology , who has over the years produced a series of photographs which show objects with very different redshifts that are physically connected by streamers of material . |
| 3 | A farmer 's wife of Middle Farm has over the years developed a very attractive plant and shrub centre with success . |
| 4 | Like Lawrence of Arabia going up and down the majestic sand dunes , he has over the years risen to great heights , and plummeted to great depths . |
| 5 | However , the USA in particular has over the years been increasingly explicit in accepting certain international legal restraints on possible nuclear use . |
| 6 | Robert Grosvenor is one of those artists who give new meaning to the term ‘ raw material ’ , using as he has over the years wooden beams — stacked , splintered , split and variously arrayed over the floor . |
| 7 | Taking a cue from Robert Indiana 's emblemised letterings of the 1960s , Matt Mullican has over the years built a rich vocabulary of geometric symbols which he has used and re-used in a variety of formats . |
| 8 | The squadron , which moved to Uplands in 1955 , has over the years operated a variety of transport aircraft , viz North Stars , a C-5 , Comet 1As , Yukons and Cosmopolitans . |
| 9 | The ‘ accounting profession ’ has over the years widened to the point where it is not only commonplace but is expected that ‘ professional accountants ’ will be employed by industry , government , local government , health authorities etc . |
| 10 | Bro Cernyw Aelwyd has over the years won in almost all sections of the Urdd 's activities , from Eisteddfod competitions to darts , pool , five-a-side football and twice runners up in the national quiz competition . |
| 11 | We want a change from the feudal tenure we 've had over the years . |
| 12 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | ‘ You know the trouble we 've had over the years with MPs ’ secretaries ? ’ |
| 14 | No they they 've over the years they 've got some very fucking good write ups . |
| 15 | His family company , which started in the 1870s , had over the years supplied bats for many of the leading cricketers . |
| 16 | Spokesmen for the Law Society and local schemes endorsed this view and suggested that it was a natural consequence of a socially aware profession which had over the years staffed and administered schemes for indigents at little or no cost . |
| 17 | In 1990 we held a benefit which raised DM 200,000 for the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden , whose director , Werner Schmidt , had over the years collected art that was forbidden in the former DDR . |
| 18 | This is unsurprising : the terrorists — or militants or mujaheddin — have over the years killed 17 journalists . |
| 19 | Their training and the pressure to conform to state rules and regulations have over the years made them appear to their pupils , and many parents , as agents of the regime . |
| 20 | As therapists , we have over the years become suspicious of the adult patient who too openly and easily confesses incestuous experience , putting this as the first and foremost cause of all their problems . |
| 21 | Post war he has had several diverse jobs and is currently Chairman of the Goldfish Club , a society for men and women who have over the years ditched in the sea . |
| 22 | Upon finding the wreck the FORI hope to be able to identify the serial plates on the engines of the aircraft , proving that this aircraft was the mount of Saint-Exupery , thereby laying to rest the many mysteries and rumours that have over the years surrounded his death . |
| 23 | Although these began as three separate initiatives , they have over the years been brought closer together . |
| 24 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 25 | These have over the years contributed to our unenviable record of ill health . |
| 26 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 27 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 28 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 29 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 30 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |