Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 2 | Sudan has suffered many years of intermittent internal strife between governments dominated by northerners and separatist movements in the south . |
| 3 | There is a professionally qualified Staff of three in the Learning Support Department , , who has had many years of experience here at Heriot 's , both in the Junior School and in Learning Support ; ; who has more recently joined us after several years experience in Learning Support in other schools ; and who , as Head of Department and an experienced educational psychologist , is responsible for the assessment of our pupils and for the planning of their programmes within the Department . |
| 4 | Today 's readings are taken from a book called A Cup of Water written by Janet Lacey who has devoted many years of her life to working for Christian Aid . |
| 5 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 6 | According to Koen Van Waerebeek , who has spent many years studying the dolphin hunt , hardly anyone in Peru is aware of the true nature of chancho marino . |
| 7 | WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me . |
| 8 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 9 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 10 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 11 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 12 | Britain has wasted many years , falling behind international comparison in all aspects of development of our living environment . |
| 13 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 14 | But it must be remembered that the process of evolving acceptable accounting standards has taken many years . |
| 15 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 16 | It has taken many years for these professionals to gain recognition and acceptance . |
| 17 | ‘ If nitrate does , indirectly , cause cancer , it will be the long-term average that matters and the effect of any increase in cancer rates would be expected to take many years to become apparent … |
| 18 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 19 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 20 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 21 | As Punch would have said many years ago , ‘ collapse of Stout Party ’ . |
| 22 | The social workers commented that in this very ‘ stuck ’ situation something had to give to get any movement ; it was necessary to encourage the daughter to take the independence she should have had many years ago . |
| 23 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |
| 24 | Having spent many years arguing for government support for the British fashion industry — and getting nowhere — she can not be blamed for opting to manufacture and show abroad . |
| 25 | Having spent many years in Betws-y-Coed Railway museum , it has now been retired and most of the motion overhaul has now been completed . |
| 26 | Frejji is completely at home in zerograv , having spent many years building magni-freighters among the moons of Cytostom . |
| 27 | But having spent many years building up an effective distribution network , we see no reason why this network should be given away to our competitors . |
| 28 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |
| 29 | ‘ I started working many years ago , I can not remember how many , certainly over 15 . |
| 30 | Miller frequently mentions Sherard 's contributions to Chelsea , among them Phlomis orientalis , Jerusalem sage , completely destroyed by the great frost of 1740 and P. flavescens , which managed to survive many years in a warm border . |