Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where communities have got together to build a school themselves , under an agreement with the government , they have sometimes had to wait years before the government sends teachers to staff it . |
| 2 | His Solidarity scheme , based on help for those who help themselves , has provided schools and sewers for those who might otherwise have waited years for benefits to trickle down . |
| 3 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 4 | Children who behave badly have had years to learn it . |
| 5 | I bloody have done years ago you chuck buckets of water over them . |