Example sentences of "has be for [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
2 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
3 Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response .
4 The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular .
5 However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive .
6 I know that that is not entirely agreeable to some of my hon. Friends and to some Opposition Members , but that is the fact of life — and has been for many years .
7 The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state .
8 She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine .
9 Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location .
10 erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft .
11 Has been for six years .
12 ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years .
13 ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said .
14 ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years .
15 The drug AZT , an inhibitor of DNA synthesis , has been for several years the only treatment for those with symptoms of overt AIDS .
16 The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years .
17 ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years .
18 There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income .
19 There is indeed , and has been for some years , discussion on the political level as to whether , and to what extent , public transport , particularly in capital cities , should be regarded , and financed , as a social service , out of taxation whether national or local .
20 Nine tenths of the Leicester ring road is finished and has been for some years .
21 It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like .
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