Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] thousands [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 2 | By contrast , alcohol has been enjoyed for thousands of years and in moderate quantities is harmless . |
| 3 | A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households . |
| 4 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 5 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 6 | ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world . |
| 7 | The case ‘ will determine whether a seventh of British waterways … ( among the navigable rivers ) … will remain open … access to rivers that have been used for thousands of years could become open to challenge ’ . |
| 8 | During those 50 years ICI 's acrylic plastics have been used by thousands of customers for tens of thousands of applications and current sales worldwide are of the order of 60,000 tonnes a year . |
| 9 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 10 | Mark Twain fancifully observed that God had modelled heaven on Mauritius , a thought which has been echoed by thousands of travellers who have since discovered the untapped beauty and raw charm of this lovely isle . |
| 11 | The existence of a fundamental ‘ life energy ’ has been postulated for thousands of years in many different civilizations , and crops up independently from sources which had little contact with each other . |
| 12 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |