Example sentences of "having [vb pp] for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Born in Hawick , he was a late starter in photography , having worked for several years with a water board , but his eye for a picture has brought him distinction on numerous occasions . |
| 3 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 4 | The pace of slum clearance slackened in the early 1970s , local authority programmes having survived for some years through their own momentum . |
| 5 | Ten years later , Iran had occupied the three Gulf islands belonging to Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah , having maintained for many years a claim to Bahrain ( although this was dropped in 1970 ) . |