Example sentences of "[adj] for so many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 2 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 3 | Later in the same year the MWCo was instrumental in having a receiver appointed to run the railway — a move which may well have helped to keep the BCR alive for so many years . |
| 4 | If something completely or partly false , however innocuous , can be shown as real for so many years , then anything false can be shown as real , and be believed … . |
| 5 | The press serves it too well for that to happen and so the problems which have taxed the left for so many years will continue to haunt it in the future . |
| 6 | Virginia Woolf was asked once why she stayed married for so many years to Leonard , a man most of her colleagues found to be her intellectual inferior . |
| 7 | It all went a long way towards explaining why umpires the world over have been reluctant for so many years to restrain cricket 's bouncer-happy fast bowlers . |
| 8 | But the first controversy over appointments between the prestigious London Company , responsible for so many things , and the obscure community 180 difficult miles away occurred in 1601 . |
| 9 | Because the loops are too small for so many trebles they frill up as you can see . |
| 10 | How did Blake manage to keep this in his cell undetected for so many months ? |
| 11 | He unveiled a plaque to commemorate the occasion and told the assembled company : ‘ This is a dream come true for so many people on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway . ’ |