Example sentences of "years [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 2 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 3 | In recent years there had been considerable debate about the nature of the railways ' contribution to economic growth . |
| 4 | The report points out that over the past two years there have been international hotel mergers and acquisitions worth $8.8b ( £5.5b ) . |
| 5 | In the last fifty years there has been increasing competition from foreign textile and clothing firms for markets in all parts of the world . |
| 6 | In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the importance of training for staff at all levels in libraries of all kinds but apart from a circular letter sent out by The Library Association in 1976 , and two publications on the subject , one in 1977 and another in 1978 , there have been no systematic attempts to assess overall provision of training in the UK . |
| 7 | There is no presumption that monopoly is necessarily bad , and the Commission is charged to investigate whether or not the monopoly acts against the public interest , a brief that may be widely interpreted though in recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the ‘ maintenance and promotion of effective competition ’ . |
| 8 | Over recent years there has been increasing interest in these widely distributed and biologically important compounds , and their importance in platelet biochemistry and platelet-vessel wall interactions has been emphasised . |
| 9 | In recent years there has been increasing interest in the evaluation of performance in the public sector of the economy . |
| 10 | Over the past few years there has been increasing interest in the biological characteristics of biliary and gall bladder epithelial cells in an attempt to enhance our understanding of diseases affecting the biliary tree . |
| 11 | For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors . |
| 12 | Over the years there has been much debate on the fusion of the two branches of the profession . |
| 13 | Over the years there has been much debate as to whether or not this state of affairs is really acceptable even given the fact that these industries are highly independent bodies . |
| 14 | In recent years there has been some evidence that they are even more evasive , changing identity by oscillating from one type of neutrino to another . |
| 15 | In recent years there has been some awareness on the part of planners of the role of rural planning policies in exaggerating the scarcity of rural housing and achieving comparatively little for those in greatest housing need . |
| 16 | In the last few years there has been some debate about the provision , role and effectiveness of postgraduate training in the social sciences in the UK . |
| 17 | In recent years there has been growing concern about the effects of alcohol and discussion of the most effective forms of treatment response for excessive alcohol use . |
| 18 | During the last few years there has been growing concern over the effects of sharp regional variations in house prices on the mobility of labour . |
| 19 | Clearly in the last twenty years there has been growing controversy about fundamental aspects of policing , unprecedented in this century . |
| 20 | In recent years there has been growing attention to the effects of different types of employment regulation on the structure of labour markets and performance of employment relations . |
| 21 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 22 | In recent years there has been remarkable expansion in the provision of humanitarian assistance for refugees by internationally based NGOs backed by major donors . |
| 23 | Over the last three years there has been vigorous discussion of the consequences of the removal of trade and currency controls on the eastern European economies . |
| 24 | During the last ten years there has been considerable progress towards ensuring that thematic work is incremental , that undue repetition is avoided and that the skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge of the integrated subjects are taught sequentially . |
| 25 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the extent to which university research addresses industrial needs . |
| 27 | In recent years there has been considerable interest in assessing the general feasibility of predicting future violence and dangerousness in individuals and families ( see Parton and Parton , 1989 ; Parton and Small , 1989 ) . |
| 28 | In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions . |
| 29 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |