Example sentences of "have [vb pp] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles has had years of practice and had already encountered all the customs and forms of national dress that amuse Diana so much . |
| 2 | CUSTODIAN OF THE COLUMBINE , ALIAS AQUILEGIA , JOHN DRAKE HAS SPENT YEARS RESEARCHING AND EXCHANGING SEEDS . |
| 3 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 4 | She is a natural historian who has spent years researching and collecting information about Baldersdale and the surrounding area , delivering lectures to local societies and writing for Teesdale publications . |
| 5 | ‘ I was obsessed with cleaning ’ The story of Diane White who has spent years fighting her compulsion . |
| 6 | Banker Alan Clarke , who has spent years working in America , says : ‘ The American women I have been out with have always been successful and good-looking but they do n't have the ability to laugh at themselves . |
| 7 | SNI has spent years attempting to unify conflicting technology inherited when Siemens AG , SNI 's parent company , fused its Data and Information Systems Group with Nixdorf Computer AG . |
| 8 | The proprietor has spent years building up a remarkable cellar of aged Riojas , which lie side by side with the best that Burgundy and Bordeaux have to offer . |
| 9 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 10 | Your Fantails , Lionheads , Orandas ( and the others such as Celestial Eye , Bubble Eye , Shubunkin , and Comet ) are all the same species , but man has spent years and years of time and effort to fix the breed . |
| 11 | Again , it has taken years of painstaking research to enable us to emulate devices which other creatures make regular use of in their everyday lives . |
| 12 | The combination of a typewriter that has taken years of heavy battering and a piece of guillotined paper of a non-standard size suggest that rather strongly . ’ |
| 13 | It 's overnight success though that has taken years of dedication to achieve . |
| 14 | It 's a difficult thing , this has taken years to get objectives and every time the old . |
| 15 | By agreeing to the charter , apparently clinched by granting veto powers to all five members of the steering committee , the Iraqi opposition has ended years of factional wrangling . |
| 16 | A BILLINGHAM woman has ended years of history at one of Darlington 's last male bastions . |
| 17 | She 'd had years of practice . |
| 18 | He 'd spent years tied to drum machines and Portostudios , crafting songwriting ideas but without finding the perfect format of presentation . |
| 19 | I wish I 'd started years ago . |
| 20 | It was the moment they 'd waited years for . |
| 21 | She 'd survived years of William Ash 's treatment of her , grown strong on her own . |
| 22 | One time , after he had done that , I found somewhere dark , and the Bony Lady cried ; cried as she should have done years back . |
| 23 | I think Con was strong enough and single-minded enough to do what I should have done years ago . |
| 24 | Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago . |
| 25 | ‘ Would you prefer that I do what some man should have done years ago ? |
| 26 | Government deregulation has exposed previously protected service industries to competition and forced managers to make the job cuts they should have made years ago . |
| 27 | In the normal course of events he would have died years ago . |
| 28 | Not even in the way that Olvia must have died years ago to serve the Emperor — but to sate one mad woman 's vengeance . |
| 29 | We 'd have died years ago . |
| 30 | First and foremost , however , he is a professional leader , having devoted years of experiential study on how to lead teams of people to great success . |