Example sentences of "had [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 2 | Nigel Mansell had for years been saying : ‘ Just go out and win ! ’ , and finally he was on the point of doing precisely that . |
| 3 | Even so , initially , with the formation of a new Anti-Slavery Society in 1823 ( the African Institution had for years primarily acted on the international slave trade ) , there was no major break in abolitionist ideological assumptions . |
| 4 | With teachers ' morale at its lowest ebb in living memory and with parental frustration escalating , the way was clear for Central Government to demand that schools be made much more accountable — accountable to the parent body which the teachers had for years struggled to involve in schools in the interests of the children they were teaching . |
| 5 | There were industries in which managers had for years sub-contracted certain management tasks to labour — for example the gang-work systems in steel , dockyards and shipbuilding — and similar practices operated in such industries as motorcar and aircraft production . |
| 6 | Those who , in the media and academe , had for years vaunted presidents and expounded ‘ executive force ’ theories were now busily reconsidering their views . |
| 7 | As MP for Derby from 1868 to 1880 Plimsoll had for years attacked the shipowning interest and the government which supported it hip and thigh on the unnecessary loss of life and property at sea , attracting great publicity in 1875 by being ordered to retire from the House of Commons following a particularly violent denunciation of their callous and self-interested behaviour . |
| 8 | What if the man had for years been an opera singer in England — it was a chillul hashem , a profanation of the Divine Name , to mix operatic arias in with the traditional sacred melodies . |
| 9 | Safety officers ( described as voices in the wilderness ) had for years reported poor electrical wiring in escalator rooms , but no action was taken . |
| 10 | This Vitamin A derivative had for years been prescribed to acne sufferers , but it was not until the mid-Eighties that reports began to filter through from the States about its miraculous ability to smooth out wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun — a process known as photo-ageing . |
| 11 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 12 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 13 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |
| 14 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 15 | the worst garden had for years ! |
| 16 | I had for years . |
| 17 | had for years and erm , you know |