Example sentences of "have existed for [det] years " in BNC.

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1 The Full Plans method is the old system that has existed for many years , whereby detailed plans of your proposal are submitted in duplicate , along with an application form .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The situation had existed for many years .
5 The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss .
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