Example sentences of "many year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 2 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 3 | For many years they had formed part of The Market Place surface . |
| 4 | For many years they were barely on grunting , let alone speaking terms . |
| 5 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 6 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 7 | He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her . |
| 8 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 9 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 10 | Many agree that for too many years we have been ‘ data rich ’ but not capable of computerising the knowledge and experience of highly skilled maintenance engineers . |
| 11 | For many years we in Britain thought of church growth as building bigger buildings for more people . |
| 12 | For many years we rarely saw any wild-caught Cichlasoma , but this is no longer the case . |
| 13 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 14 | For many years we had a well known er . |
| 15 | For example , for many years we in ICI considered that we were too thinly spread and too diverse both in technological and in geographical terms . |
| 16 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 17 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 18 | Over many years we have together worked towards the day when all the people of South Africa are able to vote for a government of their choice and be in control of their own destiny . |
| 19 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 20 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 21 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 22 | For many years it was considered that tea-bags were filled only with tea dust , the fine residue left after the sorting and packaging of tea , and that the drink obtained by using bags was therefore of very inferior quality . |
| 23 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 24 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 25 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 26 | For many years it was a centre for cave exploration but was recently acquired by the Royal Signals for adventure and training . |
| 27 | For many years it was accepted that two-tone fish ( it occurs with other species , but rarely ) are the result of winter hibernation , the dark portion of the fish being the part that is buried in bottom mud . |
| 28 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 29 | For many years it was thought that the wreck was a Spitfire , but after delving through archives at the RAF Museum along with information gleaned from various specialist publications , it was discovered that the aircraft was a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk flown by a Canadian pilot , Harold Fraser-English of 400 Squadron , operating out of Weston Zoyland . |
| 30 | A strange phenomenon of bamboo is that , dependent on which variety , after so many years it flowers and then dies . |