Example sentences of "[prep] many years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For many years I have wished to ask my aunt to visit our beautiful town , ’ she wrote , ‘ but have been deterred from doing so by the knowledge that she would have to pass this stark , staring figure . |
| 32 | For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast . |
| 33 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
| 34 | For many years I never had a proper studio , just a room in the house , and , of course , I never work on the spot . |
| 35 | For many years I had the somewhat perverse view that instead of rewarding the salesman who always got the business , we should reward the one who lost it . |
| 36 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 37 | For many years I 've hated you and it seems so — pointless . ’ |
| 38 | I have argued with my district health authority for many years I know that many hon. Members have done the same with theirs — because it has for various reasons shifted the problem of elderly sick people to the private sector . |
| 39 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 40 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 41 | For many years I , along with everyone else who takes an interest in jazz both here and further afield , have read and respected the forthright and honest views of a jazz critic who is without equal in our community . |
| 42 | AS a Crusaders supporter for many years I 'm concerned at the lack of a youth policy at Seaview . |
| 43 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 44 | For many years I was a governor of Port Slade School and Comprehensive College and I thought that was a very impressive school , as I am sure you would agree . |
| 45 | For many years he was an active member of the Scottish Religious Advisory Committee at the BBC and was a broadcaster on radio and television in Scotland . |
| 46 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 47 | For many years he was a successful businessman . |
| 48 | For many years he lived with his mother . |
| 49 | For many years he was a Wesleyan Methodist , but then he turned towards the Church of England . |
| 50 | He moved to London , where for many years he regularly preached in a chapel in Bayswater . |
| 51 | For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858–9 was chief magistrate . |
| 52 | For many years he was a member of the president 's committee , and was an examiner for the triple qualification and the fellowship . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 55 | One of the first to join the society was Vincent d'Indy , who became its secretary in 1876 ; indeed , for many years he was effectively its head . |
| 56 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 57 | For many years he edited the Cefn Chronicle and later worked for the North Wales Newspapers group . |
| 58 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 59 | For many years it was considered that tea-bags were filled only with tea dust , the fine residue left after the sorting and packaging of tea , and that the drink obtained by using bags was therefore of very inferior quality . |
| 60 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |