Example sentences of "know for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 2 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 3 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 4 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 5 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 6 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 9 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |
| 10 | It has been known for many years that rich clusters contain a lot of gas and dark matter , but Ponman and Bertram 's result shows that these features apply more generally . |
| 11 | It has been known for many years that neurons , like other cells , can be maintained alive and well under such conditions for periods of many days or even weeks , provided they are kept warm , aerated and well fed with glucose and other essential molecules . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 14 | Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years . |
| 15 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 16 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 17 | In the best traditions of the state 's statistics , a truthful answer will not be known for several years ( ie , when it is of little practical use ) . |
| 18 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 19 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 20 | She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him . |
| 21 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 22 | Difficulties with the present ‘ grey gate ’ system , in which the starter pulls a lever to raise a 65 yard-long elastic tape , have been known for some years . |
| 23 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 24 | Difficulties with the present ‘ grey gate ’ system , in which the starter pulls a lever to raise a 65 yard-long elastic tape , have been known for some years . |