Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun sg] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points a finger at my unspeakable carpet , which had escaped mention for many chapters and would continue to do so for those remaining . |
| 2 | Investment in canals had brought prosperity for many shareholders and there was similar enthusiasm to invest in the railways . |
| 3 | This was too good an opportunity to miss because Alan had fished Hope for many years and knew every inch , intimately . |
| 4 | But by then the Soviet Union no longer had any faith in the sincerity of a government which it believed had encouraged Fascism for many years . |
| 5 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |