Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 2 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |
| 5 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 6 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 7 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 8 | It will be helpful to set them in the context of the legislative framework which we have applied for many years . |
| 9 | Q I 'm 34 and have suffered for several years from intermittent burning pains in my knees , which often keep me awake . |
| 10 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 11 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 12 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 13 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 14 | It grew out of the teaching of stylistics to undergraduates at Lancaster , which and I have shared for several years . |
| 15 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 16 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 17 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 18 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 19 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 20 | Research workers have tried for many years to culture mycobacteria from tissue affected by Crohn 's disease , although generally without success . |
| 21 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 22 | Libraries are rapidly accepting the doctrine for which we have contended for many years . |
| 23 | If this House were to apply such a principle it would involve going beyond what any of the authorities have decided , departing from such decisions as Slater v. Burnley Corporation ; William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and Twyford v. Manchester Corporation which have stood for many years and would involve making new law . |
| 24 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |