Example sentences of "[prep] years [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 2 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 3 | Over the past couple of years they have waited patiently while the Microsoft and IBM products converged . |
| 4 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 5 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 6 | In a few hundreds , or at most thousands , of years we have gone from wolf to Pekinese , Bulldog , Chihuahua and Saint Bernard . |
| 7 | She was sandy-haired and rather fat and usually wore blue or grey tweeds , though with the passage of years she had become comfortably indifferent to dress . |
| 8 | In the past couple of years he has started buying up small collections of 30 or 40 , but his weekly forays around antique fairs are now yielding only three or four new designs a year . |
| 9 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 10 | ‘ It is something I have had to come to terms with because in the past couple of years I have had to fly hundreds of times . |
| 11 | all of a sudden in the next couple of years you 've got to go through thousands of years of evolution . |
| 12 | However , if , as applies to many women , despite having worked for a good number of years you have made insufficient contributions to qualify for a full pension , you should contact your local Social Security office , quoting your pension number and national insurance number . |
| 13 | The amount you receive depends on two factors : the number of years you have worked for the organisation plus the fraction of final pay on which the scheme is based , typically 1/60th . |
| 14 | Erm see the last couple of years it 's changed again . |
| 15 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 16 | For years they had lived with his mounting paranoia , the ever-more-irrational purges of his intimates , then entering an even more extreme phase with the totally imaginary ‘ Doctors ' Plot ’ . |
| 17 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 18 | For years they have marched , waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege . |
| 19 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 20 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 21 | For years they have educated and delighted us . |
| 22 | For years we have taken its plentiful , unadulterated supply for granted . |
| 23 | For years we have had the technology for every constituency headquarters to be linked to a central databank of key information . |
| 24 | FOR years we have claimed to have the best butchers in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 26 | For years she 'd gone blithely on in her own way , enjoying the applause , proud that she could send audiences home happy , laughing and satisfied at the end of one of her shows . |
| 27 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |
| 28 | For years she had turned a calm , expressionless face on the world — quiet , distant , not even blatantly cold , because that would have been a challenge to some men . |
| 29 | For years she had waited , teasing him with abuse and flattery along with the frequent loan of valuable conveniences , such as her horsebox . |
| 30 | Such dreams would not have fitted with her image and for years she had squashed them firmly , but they were still there and the name Andalucía had brought them racing back . |