Example sentences of "have for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , I shall have to cut back on public expenditure , which has for years been outgrowing our capacity to pay for it . |
| 2 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 3 | Happily attempts are being made to change the colts qualifying date to September 1st from 1993 onwards rather than the anomalous January 1st which has for years disrupted team building by splitting units established over the years on the September date . |
| 4 | In Los Angeles , another place where non-Hispanic whites are a dwindling minority , a 62-year-old white businessman is in a run-off for the mayor 's office against the young Asian-American who has for years been thought to be one of California 's most personable Democrats . |
| 5 | In a market where the high street banks ' advertising has for years been devoted to trying to humanize an essentially depressing sub-retail experience , the campaign was , to say the least , refreshingly different . |
| 6 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 7 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 8 | Yet this same champion of free speech has for years refused to hold a press conference after matches . |
| 9 | The Thai Tobacco Monopoly ( TTM ) is owned by the Ministry of Finance and has for years excluded foreign brands . |
| 10 | Britain has for years spent more , per capita , on defence than any other European nation . |
| 11 | With their enemies confined to their bases , it must have seemed worth trying to contact the men from the UN , which has for years backed SWAPO . |
| 12 | The Bishop Auckland line which has for years been the subject of closure fears will get a better pattern of morning services . |
| 13 | THE Meadows Orchestra has for years had an excellent reputation for presenting interesting programmes at a very high level of performance . |
| 14 | The England football management has for years moaned that there are no longer any easy matches , and England 's cricketers learned this salutary lesson against Sri Lanka . |
| 15 | The health authority has for years not shown any signs of so doing , I have to say . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 17 | It makes no sense for two countries to build essentially the same satellite , and the surge-tide of new satellites from Europe and Japan is threatening to kill ideas that the Americans have had for years . |
| 18 | It was the best holiday we had had for years ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Players know the choices open to them in set areas , which means we now have the inter-action as a team that Australia , New Zealand and England have had for years . ’ |
| 20 | I made his socks on my Singer KE2400 single bed machine which I have had for years . |
| 21 | I pile the CDs on top of the tapes which balance on my redundant vinyl collection that 's heaped on top of the ancient 78s I 've had for years . ’ |
| 22 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 23 | After all , we have had for years Poor Man 's Lawyer sessions , political legal advice sessions , the legal aid scheme itself , and now , more recently , the neighbourhood law centres . |
| 24 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 25 | The worst they 've had for years , apparently . ’ |
| 26 | It was an old thing he had had for years but only recently learnt to use , taught by one of the boatswains in Taheb 's fleet . |
| 27 | This is the worst snowfall we 've had for years . |
| 28 | The position on the particular issue to which the hon. Gentleman refers is that for some years now we have pursued the same policy that the money has been , in the formula applied , additional and is reflected in higher public spending plans , and that it is for the Commissioner to honour the pledge that we have had for years past . |
| 29 | And then people would point to odd things like paper technology that some of the universities had had for years , and said — ‘ Well , what 's odd about housing studies ? ’ |
| 30 | But since the day when Willi had brought her up here , to his farm , she had won back something she had n't had for years , a sense of balance , of proportion , a sense that there were a great many other things , other people in the world other than Therese Aschmann and her problems . |