Example sentences of "[prep] many years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 2 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 3 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 4 | For many years they had formed part of The Market Place surface . |
| 5 | For many years they were barely on grunting , let alone speaking terms . |
| 6 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 7 | For many years we in Britain thought of church growth as building bigger buildings for more people . |
| 8 | For many years we rarely saw any wild-caught Cichlasoma , but this is no longer the case . |
| 9 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 10 | For many years we had a well known er . |
| 11 | For example , for many years we in ICI considered that we were too thinly spread and too diverse both in technological and in geographical terms . |
| 12 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 13 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 14 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 15 | The problem is , when you have conducted a piece for many years you have a knowledge of the interior musical structures that are closed to most theatre directors . |
| 16 | After being responsible for your pet 's welfare for many years you may feel that you are repaying your pet 's love and loyalty by arranging for their death . |
| 17 | Irene Schwidurski missed all those , since for many years she has refused to observe the major public holidays of the GDR , 1 May and 7 October , the date the state was founded . |
| 18 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 19 | For many years she appeared on the list of the world 's best-dressed women , and is a frequent visitor to London . |
| 20 | For many years she helped Raine and her late husband , Earl Spencer , father of the Princess of Wales , run Althorp in Northamptonshire — and became a trusted friend . |
| 21 | For many years she helped Raine and her late husband , Earl Spencer , father of the Princess of Wales , run Althorp in Northamptonshire — and became a trusted friend . |
| 22 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 23 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 24 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 25 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 26 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 27 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 28 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 29 | For many years I marched to a music in comparison with which the military music of the streets is noise and discord . |
| 30 | As you know , for many years I have devoted time to families in my parish who foster babies for the charity , but now I feel I can do more . |