Example sentences of "year [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 2 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 3 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 4 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 5 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |
| 6 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 7 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 8 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 9 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 10 | During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 11 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 12 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 13 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 15 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 16 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 17 | Generally my fish are too healthy to require treatment , but in the last few years I have been able to buy fish as they arrive in the country ( usually via the large fish shows . ) |
| 18 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . |
| 19 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 20 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |
| 21 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 22 | For years I have been excited by him , quoted him , relied on him . |
| 23 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 24 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
| 25 | Over the last twenty years I have been active in our hobby , I have lost count of the number of detectors I have used . |
| 26 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 27 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 28 | ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’ |
| 29 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 30 | ‘ In recent years I have been impressed by the standard of speech training in various parts of the province and it was the same again in Ballyclare where a number of talented young people were on stage . ’ |