Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm buildings were empty for many years , but have now been restored . |
| 2 | ‘ Times were hard for many people . |
| 3 | The book is no Daddie Dearest , though the two were estranged for many years . |
| 4 | And so the day we bought the piano was memorable for many reasons . |
| 5 | The house and gallery date from 1640 , though the house was derelict for many years and restored in 1920 . |
| 6 | The canal was derelict for many years , but now flows again to produce electricity for the neighbourhood ; and it still makes a pleasant summer evening walk from Tavistock to the tunnel mouth . |
| 7 | Allied bombings in 1943 devastated the city , and the light from the fires was visible for many miles out across the plain . |
| 8 | Mostow & Hayes-Roth ( 78 ) found that this formalism was inappropriate for many speech tasks . |
| 9 | Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm . |
| 10 | Unless a dancer was resident for many weeks at a theatre , it was difficult to get to know a prospective husband . |
| 11 | Kempe was responsible for many telegraph and telephone services used by the Post Office ( including sending keys , postal pneumatic extensions ) and his design of the Dover–Calais cable for the London–Paris telephone was an acknowledged success . |
| 12 | At the same time he was responsible for many improvements , taking out seven patents up to 1851 for cotton spinning and several thereafter for power-loom weaving . |
| 13 | Florian was renowned for many things , but sensitivity was n't among them . |
| 14 | Here as in other regions the system of ploughed riggs , or ridges , and strip cultivation in fields shared by different families was common for many centuries . |
| 15 | In this research , palynology was dominant for many years but subsequently enormous potential has been offered by research developed by F. Oldfield on mineral magnetic properties which are valuable because many magnetic properties are environmentally diagnostic , are preserved for long periods in many situations , and have parameters which are easy to measure . |
| 16 | In any event , the ‘ extra ’ trading week was spectacular for many retailers , and for those who started their sale on Bank Holiday Monday ( 28 December ) the rewards were handsome . |
| 17 | That 's how it was with me and I know it was true for many others . |