Example sentences of "[was/were] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 2 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 3 | The JS clerks of works were for many years mainly responsible for quality control of building and engineering , which is a role normally undertaken by the architect on construction projects . |
| 4 | It is also an unprecedented legal recognition here of a problem the very existence of which was for many decades denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded upon the interests of the working class . |
| 5 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 6 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 7 | Alas , the biggest deceptions in gramophone history comprised serious music , which was for many years ‘ cut down ’ , both in duration and instrumentation . |
| 8 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 9 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 10 | Whose Line Is It Anyway ? was for many a first glimpse of Paul Merton . |
| 11 | But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general . |
| 12 | It may have sounded like good fun , and obviously was for many young people , but this pleasurable diversion had a very serious side which went beyond romance . |
| 13 | In the courtyard , a 14th-century half-timbered and thatched roof building was for many centuries the local courthouse where justice was meted out . |
| 14 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 15 | However , although it was considered a duty to encourage providence , saving was for many a stark impossibility . |
| 16 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 17 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 18 | A tower of strength , he was for many years the Master in charge of the business side of the Library , supervising its odyssey around the School ; he had helped with lacrosse , with the School 's annual invasions of German-speaking Europe , with the financial side of the School Play . |
| 19 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |
| 20 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 21 | He was for many years a JP for Bombay , and took a keen interest in municipal affairs . |
| 22 | He determined the fossils that were the key to the rock succession in the Southern Uplands , was for many years palaeontologist to the Scottish branch of the Geological Survey , and late in life wrote an important memoir on Carboniferous crustacea , a group that had fascinated him since he had searched rock pools for crabs with his father . |
| 23 | , James ( fl. 1774 ) , clergyman , teacher , and lexicographer , was for many years a curate at All Saints ' Church , Edmonton , Middlesex , and a teacher at schools in Goodman 's Fields and Tottenham . |
| 24 | He was for many years Brother Buccaneer to the literary dining club , The Sette of Odd Volumes , where his quick repartee was much appreciated . |
| 25 | None of these appointments brought a regular salary and he supplemented his income by medical journalism ; he was for many years medical correspondent to The Times . |
| 26 | They had three daughters and one son , Matthew , who followed his father 's profession and was for many years superintendent of the LNER locomotive depot at Neasden , London . |
| 27 | Another Mitchell known as " Puddin " was for many years tree planter in the village and at the later part of the 19th century planted trees around the cemetery , always maintaining he was one short , and if one takes the trouble to look there is a gap still awaiting the missing tree . |
| 28 | For example , Roman Jakobson and his Prague school colleague René Wellek have had considerable influence on literary studies through their teaching and work in the United States for a number of decades , and , although it carried no explicit theoretical creed , René Wellek 's Theory of Literature ( co-authored with Austin Warren and first published in 1949 ) was for many years the only widely available explicitly theoretical account of literary studies for Anglo-Saxon students of literature . |
| 29 | Huntingtower Castle , originally known as the House of Ruthven , was for many centuries the home of the Ruthven family . |
| 30 | Zanzibar was for many years an Omani-owned territory . |