Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 2 | It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years . |
| 3 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 4 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 5 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 6 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 7 | The lawyer and his clerk had worked together for many years , and knew and understood each other . |
| 8 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 9 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 11 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 12 | The trustees in acting prudently on investments need to take advice , and , and we have done so for many years , and our investment advisors are currently Schroder Investment Management Limited . |
| 13 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 14 | Incidentally , many of you have continued faithfully for several years to send me your used AMNESTY journals . |
| 15 | Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew , President of the BT National Swimathon , wished all 30,000 swimmers who have signed up for this year 's BT National Swimathon ‘ the very best of luck ’ . |
| 16 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |