Example sentences of "[verb] for many [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 2 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 3 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 4 | Never married , Lottie Dod lived for many years in London before moving to Milford-on-Sea . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal . |
| 7 | Although Sulivan bought an estate at Ponsbourne in Hertfordshire , he spent most of his time in London , living for many years in a house in Queen 's Square . |
| 8 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 11 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 12 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 13 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 14 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 15 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 16 | I am not convinced , despite contentions by some , that even with increased resourcing this positive provision could be recreated for many children in their home and community settings . |
| 17 | Instead you appear to accept , almost as inevitable God- given phenomena , the ‘ thousands of angry commuters packing the station concourse at Charing Cross ’ ; ‘ a string of further crashes after Clapham ’ ( which you refer to in the context of PR imagery ) ; ‘ overcrowding for many commuters in Kent and Essex ( as ) a way of life , with some trains carrying 150% of their capacity ’ ( what about Surrey and Hampshire ? ) |
| 18 | The tremendous emphasis on the romantic conception of marriage and of the wedding day as signifying life 's romantic climax , which has figured for many years in British society and which has been fostered by mass media and advertising , also has its effect on expectations . |
| 19 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 20 | She too , has many accomplishments , worked for many years in the Rating and Valuation Office , now the District Valuer 's Office . |
| 21 | I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition . |
| 22 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 23 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 24 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 25 | Over half live for many years in one hostel . |
| 26 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I can honestly say that the facts are correct : I am thirty-two , I did live for many years in Scotland , and yes , I do head one of the largest investment corporations in the country . ’ |
| 28 | The shining Gaggia dispensed one-and-a-half inches of bitter froth into an earthenware cup , and for two shillings lovers could sit for many hours in the dark brown shadows , with a bowl of brown sugar between them . |
| 29 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 30 | Unless the base stock was kept for many years in the same conditions as those in which estimates were made , problems could have arisen . |