Example sentences of "years and have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |
| 2 | Numbers of undergraduates and research students have increased substantially in the last 20 years and have been matched by recent extensive building additions to the School . |
| 3 | I have lived adjacent to Bootle Grammar School in Netherton for 25 years and have been plagued with these golfers for most of that time . |
| 4 | The technique is best suited to hydrothermal systems older than 100 million years and has been proven for deposits as old as 1800 million years . |
| 5 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 6 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 7 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |