Example sentences of "which had exist for " in BNC.

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1 So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia .
2 The Wyndham Act of 1903 gave the deathblow to the old landlord system which had existed for centuries .
3 This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s .
4 ‘ Neither the inspections detailed in the approved maintenance schedule nor those recommended by the manufacturer were adequate to detect partial cracks [ which had existed for about 7100 flights ] in the horizontal stabiliser rear spar top chord but would probably have been adequate for the detection of a completely fractured top chord . ’
5 Born out of a particular set of circumstances , the treaty did little to unite France , but served rather to underline the divisions which had existed for two decades or more .
6 Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended .
7 A few months later the decyphering organisation which had existed for not far short of two centuries also disappeared .
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