Example sentences of "[been] for many " in BNC.

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31 Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location .
32 erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft .
33 And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day .
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