Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall effect was extremely damaging for many companies in the cities and elsewhere : domestic demand was reduced ; the costs of borrowing rose ; public-sector contracts diminished ; exports became much more expensive . |
| 2 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
| 3 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 4 | As promised , his regime had delivered a degree of governmental stability that France had not enjoyed for many years . |
| 5 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 6 | Naturally an appeal was made by the McLaren team but the dispute was not resolved for many weeks . |
| 7 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 8 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 9 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 10 | Mr. Major said that the inflation figure was remarkable in a way not seen for many years . |
| 11 | Partly because of such difficulties the development of meaningful and quantifiable output measures has not occurred for many areas of departmental activity . |
| 12 | If the tradition still exists today — and it appears that it very much does so — it implies that the United Kingdom does not have for many loyalists a natural character of statehood in the way the Southern state has for catholic nationalists . |
| 13 | Darwin 's theory on evolution does not mean for many Christians , no some Christians do not accept Darwin 's theory of evolution . |
| 14 | The Confederation of British Industry says that the recovery will not come for many more months . |
| 15 | It often does not reappear for many more miles . |
| 16 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 17 | Much of the mill 's corn milling equipment , as well as the iron water wheel , still survive , although not worked for many years . |
| 18 | While programs already exist for many of these topics it is sometimes more satisfying if one has sufficient ability in computer programming to modify existing simulations or create alternative programs . |
| 19 | The speculator 's sole intention is to secure a profit without providing any input , even if this is not achieved for many years . |
| 20 | In part , as the UNCTC considers , this is due to a ‘ widespread impression that service industries consist largely of technologically stagnant , small-scale personal services based on unskilled labour working with little capital in ways that have not changed for many years ’ . |
| 21 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 22 | Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years . |
| 23 | In the wake of major advances in medicine and technology it 's interesting to hear that not only is acupuncture still used for many human conditions , but there is also an increasing trend toward using acupuncture for pets . |
| 24 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 25 | The younger Royals are being reminded that the State still pays for many of their benefits . |
| 26 | Like " freedom " , " equality " , " justice " , " human rights ' , and so forth , " democracy " is a term which , whatever its precise meaning , will always signify for many a cherished political principle or Ideal , and for that reason alone it is never likely to achieve a single agreed meaning . |
| 27 | The high temperatures of 10 mill K and more lasted for many milliseconds , and implied that there was a high degree of plasma stability , and large reduction of the unaccountable loss of energy and plasma across the magnetic field found in early experiments on Zeta pinches and on stellarators in the US ( though indeed some unaccountable loss still exists ) . |
| 28 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 29 | If memory serves me right , I was promoted to Div 45 paddling in an Augsburg 72 , a high volume boat which I also used for many white water trips . |
| 30 | In November 1989 the 300 remaining squatters in Amsterdam were evicted , amid serious disturbances , from the buildings which they had illegally occupied for many years . |