Example sentences of "years there have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 2 | In more recent years there have been signs of a change in emphasis . |
| 3 | In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs . |
| 4 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 5 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 6 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |
| 7 | Within the past few years there have been developments that give rise to the hope that before too long we shall have a filly consistent quantum theory of gravity , one that will agree with general relativity for macroscopic objects and will , one hopes , be free of the mathematical infinities that have long bedeviled other quantum field theories . |
| 8 | For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form . |
| 9 | For several years there have been complaints from Bramshott residents about flooding , erosion of banks and the neglected state of the path . |
| 10 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 11 | For many years there have been proponents of the theory that one of the ‘ lobe-finned ’ fishes included the ancestor of the tetrapods , and it is not difficult to imagine their stumpy fins , with a fleshy core , making the uneasy transition into a walking leg . |
| 12 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |
| 13 | For many years there have been worries over the increasing monopolisation of British industry , as evidenced by increased levels of both aggregate and market concentration , and for which there is little doubt that merger activity has , at times , been a major causal factor ( see e.g. HMSO 1978 , Hughes 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 15 | Local people mutter and march , make speeches and throw things ; staff face sarcasm in nearby pubs ; and for years there have been demands for a public inquiry . |