Example sentences of "[adj] years he has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last few years he has discussed many confidential matters with Prince Charles who has regularly visited his practice near Sloane Street . |
| 2 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 3 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 4 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 5 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 6 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 7 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 8 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 9 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 10 | This is vintage Saddam : over the past 21 years he has swung between killing Iraqi Kurds and offering them more self-rule than the Kurds in Turkey , Iran or Syria can dream of . |
| 11 | ‘ For very many years he has had mistresses . ’ |
| 12 | For many years he has been the Fund Raising Organizer for the British Rail Support Group , Condover Hall School for the Blind , a position he still holds . |
| 13 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 14 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 15 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 16 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 17 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 18 | In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times . |
| 19 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 20 | For the last nine years he has lived outside work time as a brunette , Diane , and has helped counsel others . |
| 21 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 22 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 23 | During the past twenty years he has spent more and more time in Greece — and the paintings in the current exhibition of this veteran Abstract Expressionist at the ACA Galleries are the result of extended periods spent in Greece during the past two years ( 4 to 27 March ) . |
| 24 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 25 | For the past two years he has begun on July 10 . |
| 26 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 27 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 28 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 29 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
| 30 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |