Example sentences of "year [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that local democracy was not very responsibly exercised by some people in the years that have just gone by . ’ |
| 2 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 3 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 4 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |
| 5 | Patients in the sulphasalazine group had been maintained on the drug at a daily dose of 2 ( 2–3 ) g for 8.0 ( 1.7–2.1 ) years and had never received mesalazine . |
| 6 | Having drank in that pub for eight years and having never caused any trouble in that time , I am disgusted by the fact that there is a general ban on customers with a pierced nose . |
| 7 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 8 | ‘ I can scarcely believe I 've lived in Cornwall for all these years and have n't seen any of this before ! ’ |
| 9 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |
| 10 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been in the game for eight years and have never tasted such a chilling fear . |
| 12 | We have paid home insurance for the last 25 years and have never made a claim . |
| 13 | I have carried my own personal tapes and cassettes in NO SMOKING carriages for nearly 20 years and have never had a problem . |
| 14 | I only did this because I know the outlet where I purchased the fish from has its own excellent quarantine facilities and I have used this shop for over 10 years and have never had any trouble with fish purchased from there . |
| 15 | Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence . |
| 16 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 17 | John and Ann Searancke have lived at Chequers for nearly twenty years and have continually improved the property — their care and love of the house shows . |
| 18 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 19 | He has been with BMK for 12 years and has previously worked in sales and production . |
| 20 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 21 | The number of mental hospital beds trebled to over 300,000 in 20 years and has since risen to 340,000 . |
| 22 | As someone who has been admitted into psychiatric care 16 times in the past 25 years and has usually received acute care in asylum style settings , I shed few tears for the disappearance of these places . |
| 23 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 24 | TAZ Bey 's theory of the ‘ temporary autonomous zone ’ has been floating around on the margins of Stateside cybertippy culture for a couple of years and has now drifted over here . |
| 25 | Other men confirmed that they had been subjected to her unwanted attentions and ‘ filthy language ’ over six years but had not reported her . |
| 26 | He has lived at his Glebe Farm home for more than 30 years but had not relished fighting for its survival . |
| 27 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 28 | Llangoed Hall , a most romantic house built in 1912 by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis , in a wonderful setting beside the River Wye in Powys , lay empty for fifteen years but has recently opened as a first-class country house hotel . |
| 29 | ‘ It is something which has gone on in this force for almost two years but has now reached epidemic proportions and something has to be done , ’ he declared . |
| 30 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |