Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [pers pn] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 3 | For 10 years she has managed her garden , in the suburbs of Leicester , in ways that encourage wildlife . |
| 4 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
| 5 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 6 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
| 7 | Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond . |
| 8 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 9 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 10 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 11 | Irene Schwidurski missed all those , since for many years she has refused to observe the major public holidays of the GDR , 1 May and 7 October , the date the state was founded . |
| 12 | For many years he has been the Fund Raising Organizer for the British Rail Support Group , Condover Hall School for the Blind , a position he still holds . |
| 13 | For many years it has been known that black people are more likely than whites to be admitted to hospital for treatment of mental disorder , more likely to be admitted compulsorily following being arrested in a public place by the police and far more likely to be diagnosed as having schizophrenia than white people . |
| 14 | For many years it has been claimed that the level of taxes and services is an important factor in moving house . |
| 15 | For many years it has enjoyed an outstanding reputation in Latin American studies , and recent publications in this area include Edwin Williamson , The Penguin History of Latin America . |
| 16 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 17 | During those years it has built over two thousand seven hundred ships , including four hundred war ships for the Royal Navy . |
| 18 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 19 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 20 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 21 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 22 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 23 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 24 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 25 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 26 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
| 27 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |
| 28 | Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed . |
| 29 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 30 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |