Example sentences of "[pron] have for many years been " in BNC.
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| 1 | What importance do you attach , Mrs , to the observation of the District Council in relation to their erm District Development Plan which has for many years been used for development control , of the following text , which you quote in your paragraph three point six ? |
| 2 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 3 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 4 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 5 | In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all . |
| 6 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 7 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 8 | It has for many years been the most widely used method of social research . |