Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 2 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 3 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 4 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 5 | The lawyer and his clerk had worked together for many years , and knew and understood each other . |