Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] some years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff has worked for some years to create links with the community and has worked to develop the curriculum , giving special attention to the learning needs of bilingual children . |
| 2 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 3 | As we have seen , the establishment of NAB , with its very strong representation from the local authorities , creates a new environment for the polytechnics , and the colleges and institutes of higher education , to which they will have to adjust for some years to come . |
| 4 | These are , I hope , the last Darwin books I shall have to read for some years ( unless of course Sydney Smith produces one ) . |
| 5 | He was older than the rest of us at Breakspear , you see , having tried for some years to make a go of a religious vocation before abandoning it in favour of teaching . |
| 6 | The pace of slum clearance slackened in the early 1970s , local authority programmes having survived for some years through their own momentum . |
| 7 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 8 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 9 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 10 | ‘ The constructors and team-managers have enjoyed for some years now such unrealistic power and influence , have commanded so much attention , they have begun to think of themselves and their cars as the stars . |