Example sentences of "[num] years [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done .
2 But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it .
3 Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions .
4 During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions .
5 He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies .
6 He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies .
7 For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose .
8 For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public .
9 Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation .
10 It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient .
11 Forty years I 've known Gloria .
12 For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again .
13 ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined .
14 Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ?
15 These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens .
16 Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here .
17 No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom .
18 For the past six years they 've spent time perfecting the revolutionary 3.6 litre , 32 valve , V8 engine .
19 For six years they have transformed half an acre of bleak Cotswold cottage garden into a celebration of vibrancy .
20 In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers .
21 A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council .
22 For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 .
23 In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’
27 Six years I 've had that .
28 Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting .
29 I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid .
30 According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis .
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