Example sentences of "over the years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 61 | She had loved him , almost obsessively , since the age of sixteen and , though he had never in any way encouraged her , over the years she had built all her dreams around him . |
| 62 | But over the years she 'd studied hard — correspondence courses , night classes , anything she could lay her hands on . |
| 63 | ‘ It 's always the same person of course , although over the years she has had different names and come in various shapes and sizes . |
| 64 | Over the years she has managed to raise more support than any other branch in the West of Scotland . |
| 65 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 66 | Over the years it has produced a wide-ranging series of reports on abuses of power by the national brewers , many of which have led to action by central government . |
| 67 | Over the years it has become usual to rate small transformers for this sort of application in terms of rectified and smoothed d.c. outputs , but you ca n't always be sure of this and caution is advisable . |
| 68 | Over the years it has become apparent that certain questions are asked more often than others . |
| 69 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 70 | Over the years it has received King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ( the present Queen Mother ) after the Coronation in 1937 ; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 after her own Coronation , and more recently the Prince and Princess of Wales on their first tour in 1981 . |
| 71 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 72 | I 've never needed it , and over the years it has accumulated . |
| 73 | Its role was partly that of a forum , partly a catalyst , and partly that of an intellectual resource which feeds in ideas and information ; over the years it has developed an outstanding reputation for encouraging and sustaining an informed dialogue between local movements . |
| 74 | Thus , over the years it has been used to index reports , trade literature , periodical articles and other similar documents . |
| 75 | Over the years it has attracted add-in products , including collections of templates , and this means that it can be sometimes be used as a complete solution to common business problems . |
| 76 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
| 77 | Over the years it has developed an international reputation in research on student learning strategies , critical analysis of adult basic and overseas education , and in educational philosophy and policy . |
| 78 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 79 | Over the years it has gone on such a long time . |
| 80 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 81 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 82 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 83 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 84 | Over the years I 've been lucky enough to see pine martens , golden eagles , otters , blue hares , foxes and a huge variety of birds , including a snowy egret at Torridon , wildly off course from its African and European haunts . |
| 85 | Over the years I 've encountered a fair number of weird and wonderful marketing ideas , but perhaps none more eye-catching than Sony 's new mid-price ‘ Dinner Classics ’ series . |
| 86 | Q Over the years I 've accumulated a motley collection of kitchen knives , none of which are very sharp . |
| 87 | Over the years I 've noticed ‘ job-title consciousness ’ increasing dramatically . |
| 88 | Over the years I 've learnt to mistrust claims for better equipment based on small improvements in lab results , but the figures for the Aurora are in a different league . |
| 89 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 90 | Congress will recall that over the years I 've made references to the close working relationship , which was developing between G M B and our German colleagues . |