Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council has recognised for many years the intimate connection between economic performance and educational attainment . |
| 2 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 3 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 4 | discussing the prospects of university cricket at that time wrote : ‘ The young Australian S. M. J. Woods , the present captain , is far and away the best fast bowler Cambridge has had for many years . |
| 5 | Research workers have tried for many years to culture mycobacteria from tissue affected by Crohn 's disease , although generally without success . |
| 6 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 7 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 8 | To mark the occassion a farewell dinner was given to Trevor and his wife Barbara at the Post House Hotel in Norwich , attended by Joint M.D. Rod Turnbull , Sales Directors Steve Higgins and Jack Millar , together with many colleagues and customers with whom Trevor had worked for many years . |
| 9 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 10 | Just to conclude , this is the best budget education 's had for many years , it 's good news for schools , it 's good news for council tax payers and mostly importantly it 's good news for pupils and I hope you 'll accept that . |
| 11 | The same arrangement has existed for many years with the USAF 's 170 F-111 bomber aircraft which fly from Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire and Lakenheath in Suffolk . |
| 12 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 13 | Again , that is not a haphazard system , but one which our legislation has recognised for many years under successive Governments . |
| 14 | Kate had worked for many years with her firm , finishing as head of the sales department . |
| 15 | The demand for health care has risen for many reasons . |
| 16 | The Benevolent Fund had existed for many years , but it was Harry Barber who first inaugurated in the Essex Section the Links scheme in which elderly and retired members keep in touch with each other for mutual support if required . |
| 17 | The situation had existed for many years . |
| 18 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 19 | Leonard Brandwood has worked for many decades on the chronology of Plato 's dialogues . |
| 20 | The couple had lived for many years on a narrow pedestrian street known quite simply as ‘ Behind the Hill ’ ( later Paul Street ) , a useful little short-cut between Palmer Street and Catherine Hill . |
| 21 | When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years . |
| 22 | , ( Arthur ) Oswald ( 1868–1939 ) , journalist and heraldist , was born 3 January 1868 in London , where his family had lived for many generations , the only child of Henry Stracey Barron ( 1838–1918 ) , engineer in Constantinople , and his wife Harriet Marshall ( 1836–1918 ) . |
| 23 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |