Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 2 | Indeed , the role of fibrinogen in platelet aggregation has been recognised for many years ( Born & Cross , 1964 ; Brinkhaus et al , 1965 ) . |
| 3 | Salicylate nephrotoxicity has been recognised for many years . |
| 4 | A children s adventure playground has been built in recent years , and the field is well used by the village football and cricket teams . |
| 5 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 6 | Much has been written in recent years of the so-called " male menopause " . |
| 7 | A good deal has been written in recent years about Primitive Catholicism , the tendency apparent even within the New Testament period itself to domesticate the Holy Spirit , to make him the perquisite of the Church . |
| 8 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
| 9 | It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years . |
| 10 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |
| 11 | Another solution-generating technique that has been developed in recent years is that associated with Bäcklund transformations . |
| 12 | But a formidable argument has been developed in recent years by leading academic lawyers that this stream of authority should be the subject of reinterpretation to reveal a different line of thought pointing to the conclusion that money paid to a public authority pursuant to an ultra vires demand should be repayable , without the necessity of establishing compulsion , on the simple ground that there was no consideration for the payment . |
| 13 | Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important . |
| 14 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 15 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 16 | ‘ Hemp has been grown for many years on the Continent and this decision will allow UK farmers to gain a share of the market currently occupied by our EC partners . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ To disturb them after all the work that has been done over many years would be a disaster . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 19 | This is partly due to the privatization programme which has been implemented in recent years and has reduced the number of public corporations . |
| 20 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 21 | Considerable research effort has been invested over many years into both speech recognition and speech understanding , but very few robust implementations have been developed . |
| 22 | A flight from positivism has been witnessed in recent years in the social sciences , and the argument appears to be now widely accepted that since knowledge is never the direct product of experience . |
| 23 | According to David Hume , the subject of the next chapter , Berkeley 's account of abstract ideas was ‘ one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters ’ . |
| 24 | Early television cameras were large and the image of poor quality , but much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , much progress has been made in recent years . |
| 26 | Its bid to become a polytechnic has been supported for many years by Conservative Members from Derbyshire . |
| 27 | The Mill has been renovated after 12 years of doing nothing . |
| 28 | For the reasons explained above , the interest in script recognition systems has been expanding in recent years . |
| 29 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 30 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |