Example sentences of "have [prep] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hundreds [ of shareholders ] have for years maintained guarantees at banks ’ , continued the article , ‘ and thousands have helped to create clubs by taking shares without hope of seeing their money back or any return on it . ’ |
| 2 | British runners have for years plundered the prizes on the Continent most weekends of the winter . |
| 3 | But will the arrival of the BAF make a discernible difference to the lot of road runners , many of whom feel that structures and attitudes within athletics have for years worked against the interests of road runners at all levels ? |
| 4 | On the basis of this scientific fact you can readily understand why many doctors have for years discouraged overweight people from eating carbohydrate-rich foods . |
| 5 | Arrow shafts have for years been made to a very high standard , with spiral-wrapped glass filaments and with aligned fibre composites ( AFC ) using high modulus carbon . |
| 6 | Despite the collapse of communism , the concomitant crisis in left-wing ideas and the unravelling of the Eighties consumerist fantasy , they still maintain , as they have for years , that socialism is an evil malaise , while professing a support for Conservatism , as unblinking as that of a home counties Tory loyalist . |
| 7 | For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting . |
| 8 | I have for years been recycling my NME s , principally to Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Denied a selection vote because of his continuing association with one particular club , he can carry on coaching Llanelli while also — at last — having the input into the national team that many have for years wanted him to have . |
| 10 | The errors of this motley crew have for years been apparent in the Athena , Barclay 's , Hunting Group , Littlewoods , John Player , BP , Overseas League , NEAC , the R.A. , and no doubt , many other prizes and awards . |
| 11 | The West and the Soviet Union have for years , with the enthusiastic help of local rulers made the entire region one of catastrophically high expenditure on arms . |
| 12 | In chapter 3 we saw that accountants and finance theorists have for years debated the inconsistencies between accounting ROI and discounted cash flow ( DCF ) calculations . |
| 13 | The bulky results of separating data generation from evaluation decisions have for years been a burden to teaching staff , a drain on institutional resources and a crime against the arboreal environment . |
| 14 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 15 | Both have for years eked lacklustre profit out of aging products . |
| 16 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 17 | Our new plan will mean you will feel better than you have in years — and help you lose weight |