Example sentences of "over the years [pron] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years we have been thankful to hear the BBC World Service in Chungking , Kuala Lumpur , Los Angeles , Guyana , Nigeria , Alaska and many other places — and that clear , calm statement of the news spoken with suave detachment in impeccable English has never ceased to satisfy . |
| 2 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 3 | Over the years they have been inducted into the Maori nation in New Zealand , a rare honour , have packed soccer stadiums in Uruguay and Chile which make Wembley look like a park pitch and have successfully led the way for numerous reggae bands to grab a slice of the American popular music market . |
| 4 | John Bratby R A A Retrospective , Gray Art Gallery , Clarence Road , Hartlepool ( Until April OVER the years they have been more than just good friends the Gray Art Gallery , in Hartlepool , and John Bratby , founder member of the ‘ Kitchen Sink School ’ , and , since 1971 , a full member of the Royal Academy . |
| 5 | There was no intention of converting Purley Depôt to a bus garage , as although of a more regular shape , its only entrance was on a busy part of the main Brighton Road and over the years there had been a number of near misses with other traffic , when trams were entering or leaving and the local press had conducted a campaign against its dangerous location . |
| 6 | Over the years there had been many tributes to her beauty and her dancing , but the one I particularly treasure appeared only recently . |
| 7 | So , over the years there had been a number of leather bags added to those under the loose floor boards beneath the bed in which she now spent her nights and , in her time , expected to die … |
| 8 | If it could be shown that over the years there had been a major redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor , this would indicate a reduction in class inequalities . |
| 9 | Over the years there has been much debate on the fusion of the two branches of the profession . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over the years there have been a number of fatal towplane accidents caused by gliders getting too high and jerking the towplane into a steep dive . |
| 12 | Over the years there have been innumerable accidents and incidents caused by the airbrakes opening in flight . |
| 13 | Over the years there have been a number of relief organists amongst whom are . |
| 14 | Over the years there have been a great number of electronic games concocted for the hobbyist , including one or two cricket games . |
| 15 | Over the years there have been a number of theoretical divisions of purchases into different groups , depending on the importance of the decision to buy . |
| 16 | Over the years there have been many studies of the effects of smoking on gastric secretion . |
| 17 | Over the years there have been many modifications in an attempt to simplify the tendering procedure and improve the difficulties of administration . |
| 18 | Thus , over the years it has been used to index reports , trade literature , periodical articles and other similar documents . |
| 19 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
| 20 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 21 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 22 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 23 | Over the years I 've been lucky enough to see pine martens , golden eagles , otters , blue hares , foxes and a huge variety of birds , including a snowy egret at Torridon , wildly off course from its African and European haunts . |
| 24 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 25 | Over the years I have been able to spend many hours with individual singers . |
| 26 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |