Example sentences of "has been [prep] existence for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’
2 A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage .
3 The idea , however , has been in existence for as long as man has worshipped .
4 Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant .
5 The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions .
6 Lyn de Alwis , Director of the Sri Lanka National Parks , had a secret weapon , although it is debatable whether you can call a facility that has been in existence for several thousand years ‘ secret ’ .
7 Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power .
8 That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware .
9 The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 .
10 Easthall Residents ' Association ( ERA ) has been in existence for 20 years and has been involved in numerous issues affecting the community .
11 But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction .
12 The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years .
13 The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name .
14 I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall .
15 The company has been in existence for eight years now and is completely independent .
16 Coupled to that the er , sort of the statutory protection which has been in existence for er , workers for many years in some cases is , is being whittled away .
17 MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club .
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