Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for generation " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since Kashmiri Muslim fundamentalists launched their armed struggle for independence in January 1990 , tens of thousands have fled the valley leaving homes they have occupied for generations . |
| 2 | They congregate in favoured places such as Quendale Bay , Ronas Voe and north of Hascosay , as they have done for generations , and here they complete their moult into their smart summer dress , to replace the drab dark grey and white . |
| 3 | IN a quiet , residential street in the suburbs of Edinburgh , a family argues over the state of society today , as families have done for generations . |
| 4 | Mr Macdonald claims the orders will deny traditional fishermen access to areas they have used for generations . |
| 5 | Humans have obeyed for generations — and in their millions . |
| 6 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 7 | Even today , a third of the population of the city is employed in industry , many of them in the one in which their families have worked for generations . |
| 8 | This is how monarchs and their families have lived for generations , without ever questioning that it should be so . |
| 9 | Houses where families have lived for generations are left as blackened , shattered skeletons . |