Example sentences of "[pron] had for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
| 2 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 3 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 4 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 5 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 6 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 7 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 8 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 9 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 10 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 11 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |
| 12 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 13 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 14 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 15 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 16 | As for Cranmer , he had for twenty-five years insisted on the duty of the subject , in accordance with Scripture , to obey the powers that be , which were of divine origin . |