Example sentences of "years and had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 2 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |
| 3 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 4 | With most people homesickness was inevitable but Eva had already been away from her family for several years and had never been a person to sit and pine for long . |
| 5 | Patients in the sulphasalazine group had been maintained on the drug at a daily dose of 2 ( 2–3 ) g for 8.0 ( 1.7–2.1 ) years and had never received mesalazine . |