Example sentences of "over the years have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 2 | As a journalist who over the years had written-up dozens of Honours ' lists for the papers , I knew how the names came in a day early with an embargo . |
| 3 | Steele , in charge of Music , had joined the staff in 1946 , and over the years had instilled his own love of music into hundreds of pupils by means which , if slightly idiosyncratic , were enormously successful , and had nurtured talents as diverse as members of symphony orchestras and pop groups , and soloists . |
| 4 | Pascoe glanced quickly at his navigator who , over the years had often been the source of sound advice . |
| 5 | Obviously the men who had used this room over the years had tried to flick their cigarettes into the hearth from the bed , and the majority had missed . |
| 6 | Its distinguished pupils over the years had included such famous names in German cultural life as Klopstock , Fichte , Ranke , and Friedrich Schlegel ; and not the least of its products was a series of remarkable classical scholars , beginning with Ernesti in the early eighteenth century and proceeding through Bottiger , Thiersch , Doederlein , Dissen , Meineke , Otto Jahn , Nauck , Breitenbach , Bonitz and Wachsmuth to the illustrious Wilamowitz , four years Nietzsche 's junior . |
| 7 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 8 | While some of Rabbit 's business is done on an OEM basis , with procurers over the years having included IBM , NEC , Siemens , Motorola , Intel and McDonnell Douglas , the firm has also , until recently , been selling its products direct to end users . |
| 9 | The band has also competed in many contests over the years having won many trophies . |
| 10 | The gardener of the family is the Queen Mother , whose gardens at her Scottish hideaways , the Castle of Mey and Birkhall , are stunning , and it is she who over the years has made them so . |
| 11 | Unknown to him , his wife is a gambler , who over the years has been secretly gambling away his money and assets . |
| 12 | The role of Treasurer over the years has grown from overseeing simple book-keeping to an extensive involvement and the contributions of Leslie Wise , A.J. Chapman , Albert ( Bert ) Ford and currently Jim Grey , have been valuable indeed and it is not surprising that Arthur Chapman felt the work was too demanding for an Honorary Treasurer , although what each does might vary depending on what bias the secretary brings to his post . |
| 13 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 14 | In spite of a long-established programme , with the best technical expertise in the world , the programme over the years has achieved a very mixed success . |
| 15 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 16 | When Sid Boyling gave us the light and waved us on , I read my brief prepared introduction and Mr Murray began : ‘ My friends , I speak to you from Melachusetuck , the old Indian name for Moose Jaw , and it is my pleasure to visit the studios of CHAB , your own community station , which your loyal support and encouragement over the years has made possible . |
| 17 | Players on tour are normally paired together as room-mates , a simple organisational expedient that over the years has created an explosive chemistry of scandal and misbehaviour . |
| 18 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 19 | MUCH of the most thought provoking cricket writing over the years has been produced by authors whose major interests lie outside cricket . |
| 20 | With the growing scientific knowledge of the causes of both sudden infant death and cancers in childhood over the years has grown the equally important knowledge of the benefits gained from support for the family . |
| 21 | Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident . |
| 22 | ‘ Charles 's problem has been that he married a 19-year-old inexperienced girl who over the years has become a world figure , the most famous woman on the planet . |
| 23 | All the money I have earned over the years has gone — in some cases I do n't why or where — but the fact is that at the age of 40 , I have no savings . |
| 24 | The climbing world 's response over the years has been ambivalent . |
| 25 | His work over the years has run the gamut from figurative-expressionist to purely abstract , always informed by an explosive sense of colour and whirlwind handling . |
| 26 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 27 | Few people can appreciate Basil 's contribution for none of the present generation started with him in the County , and none of those who have come and gone over the years has ever had the same influence with the teachers for he had a diffidence and a modesty which helped then , a lot . |
| 28 | There is a distinct paucity of entirely new courses to mention , but the ‘ work in hand ’ element of Nelson 's various acquisitions over the years has led to Workout at intermediate and upper intermediate level ( née Collins ) , as well as Nelson 's own Distinction , a new post-FCE course some of the exercises in which follow the format of the CAE exam . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 30 | For , as we shall see , one of the most obvious effects of the myth of judicial independence on sentencing practice over the years has been the extent to which sentencers have been left to police themselves according to their own rules arid principles . |