Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warsaw Pact tanks have been fitted in recent years with additional armour , designed to explode when hit by an anti-tank missile , so neutralising its effect . |
| 2 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 3 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 4 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 5 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 6 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 7 | The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years . |
| 8 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 9 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 10 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 11 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 12 | The two areas have been twinned for 35 years . |
| 13 | Mr Steisel says annual savings of over $100m have been achieved in recent years . |
| 14 | Every other committee , or part of this county council has , with the exception of probation service which we did today , social services and libraries which we did at budget revue , have been funded at last year 's cash limit plus one and a half percent . |
| 15 | Although up to eight have been seen in one year , Bitterns are not annual in Sussex . |
| 16 | Otherwise fewer than 20 have been seen in any year since 1947 , except 1968 , when 34 passed east up the coast off Pevensey on 7 March , the largest party noted in the county since 1938 . |
| 17 | Except in 1953 , when a party of 67 was seen , not more than about 25 birds have been seen in any year since 1947 , and it is of interest that influxes have not occurred in recent severe winters . |
| 18 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 19 | And though the protracted battles between Congress and the Bush administration which have been waged in recent years are unlikely , Clinton 's proposals could be changed significantly by Congress prior to enactment . |
| 20 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 21 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 22 | Inventories have been refined over many years to meet your needs on flotilla , and include little touches like sets of snorkels and flippers — and a pack of foodstuffs and cleaning materials to start you off . |
| 23 | While case management has empirical referents which have been developed over many years ( largely in the USA ) care management has , until recently , had none . |
| 24 | Within the context of stationary axisymmetric space-times , many techniques have been developed in recent years by which new solutions may be obtained from initial vacuum solutions . |
| 25 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 26 | ‘ No new water supplies have been developed in 20 years . ’ |
| 27 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 28 | Great strides have been made in recent years to offer greater choice and to personalise private rooms , but resources are never enough to provide the optimum living conditions for a comfortable and happy old age . |
| 29 | Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 . |
| 30 | Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind . |