Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [det] year [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council has recognised for many years the intimate connection between economic performance and educational attainment . |
| 2 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 3 | Ten years later , Iran had occupied the three Gulf islands belonging to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah , having maintained for many years a claim to Bahrain ( although this was dropped in 1970 ) . |
| 4 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 5 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |