Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 2 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 3 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 5 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 6 | I have for many years enjoyed dabbling with valve amplifiers , usually modifying old ones , but all the information I have has to be gleaned from circuit diagrams or an old Mullard handbook containing a selection of designs ( I 'm sure you know the one ! ) . |
| 7 | As a beekeepers wife I have for many years had to use soap powder rather than scented detergent as bees do n't appreciate the chemical scents in many whiter-than-white products ( Letters NI 208 ) . |
| 8 | What importance do you attach , Mrs , to the observation of the District Council in relation to their erm District Development Plan which has for many years been used for development control , of the following text , which you quote in your paragraph three point six ? |
| 9 | The CNAA , the body which has for many years awarded degrees in polytechnics , will cease operation in September 1992 and will be dissolved in March 1993 . |
| 10 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 11 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 12 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 13 | A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti . |
| 14 | The garden depicted with such passionate intensity is based on one at Maytham Hall , a house in Kent which she rented for many years and last visited in 1907 . |
| 15 | Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world . |
| 16 | Sir Peter , who served for many years with 22nd SAS Regt. and SAS Group , is the first general to wear the badge in the SAS sand-coloured beret . |
| 17 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 18 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 19 | The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd . |
| 20 | Previously Bill who worked for many years as sales manager with G.U.S . |
| 21 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 22 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 23 | " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ? |
| 24 | Erm peo , people ca n't have it all ways , there has n't been any cut in the police service , in the police budget , I 'm sorry , erm we have for many years funded the police in a very generous way . |
| 25 | In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all . |
| 26 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 27 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 28 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 29 | It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone . |
| 30 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |