Example sentences of "for many years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 2 | It 's not unusual to find schools that have for many years undertaken a job analysis for all staff including ancillary assistants , caretaker and nursery nurses . |
| 3 | Francis tells of a Canadian discus thrower , Rob Gray , who had worked for many years to reach the 58 metre mark . |
| 4 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 5 | In this context a Soviet writer observed with chagrin that the United States administration , in calling into question the right-of the USSR to take part in measures to guarantee the freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf in the aftermath of Brezhnev 's initiative , had forgotten that America had for many years carried out negotiations with the USSR over the Indian Ocean , ‘ of which the Persian Gulf is a component part ’ . |
| 6 | Walter Grant for many years combined the role of destroyer ( of dirty bank-notes ) and creator ( of the lovely garden at 36 St Andrew Square ) . |
| 7 | Adult education , on the other hand , has for many years suffered from a kind of amateurish approach — part of its charm no doubt . |
| 8 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 9 | My advice extended to a number of important legal technicalities and in particular to the operation of any necessary changes in the prevailing system of rent control — which for many years served to support social stability in this country to an extent rarely recognised . |
| 10 | Exactly the same model as the Sir Samuel Kelly lifeboat , which for many years served Donaghadee , and which is now on display in the town , the 38-year-old Isles of Scilly lifeboat had an illustrious record of saving lives before her retirement in 1981 . |
| 11 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 12 | I HAVE been in business for many years operating a small company in the construction industry . |
| 13 | Henceforth socialist organisation in the universities was for many years weakened by division between ‘ socialist ’ — i.e. Communist-controlled or influenced-societies and Labour Clubs supporting the Labour Party . |
| 14 | But , in spite of the considerable effort and investment , it has for many years failed to pay its way . |
| 15 | In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want … |
| 16 | Le Monde de l'Art , established a few months ago in Hippolyte Boulanger 's former ceramics factory , which for many years housed the poster museum , the Musée de l'Affiche , is a place devoted to art and spectacle . |
| 17 | That The Smiths are the most popular group , in rough terms , at the precise time that rock 'n' roll is going through its worst phase for many years says something that is not complimentary to them . |
| 18 | Thus , Asian countries , even large nations with significant scientific systems of their own , such as China and India , will for many years remain peripheral in the international scientific systems . |
| 19 | The presence of residual pottery in stratified deposits has for many years bedevilled structural chronology , and has also affected the dating of the pottery itself . |
| 20 | Family , friends and grandchildren must take the place of the employing organizations that for many years conferred identity , values and status . |
| 21 | The artists themselves sometimes had a Jekyll-and-Hyde career , the prime example being the Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson , who for many years dressed up as a Scotsman and hijacked Sir Harry Lauder 's songs , touring Scottish music-halls under the name Hector Grant . |
| 22 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 23 | However , my predecessor , Bishop John Bickersteth , who for many years had been an advocate for issues of conservation , quite rightly protested that the Archbishop was saying no more than the biblical tradition states ! |
| 24 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 25 | THE US , Soviet Union , Britain , France and China have for many years had huge arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons in the form of ballistic missiles and manned bombers . |
| 26 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 27 | The conductor was Mr. L. Lambert , who had started conducting with Croydon Corporation in 1919 and for many years had been their union representative . |
| 28 | Aubrey Clark , who for many years had worked his shifts in Claxby box , was on the night turn . |
| 29 | There was a period during which lighting , which for many years had been provided by gas mantles , was starting to be provided by electricity . |
| 30 | My own company has for many years had the ambition to have our business spread in rough proportion to the pattern of chemical demand in the world market . |