Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years we 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 | ‘ For 21 years we have immunised 93,000 children in Bangladesh , planted 1.1m tree seedlings in Ethiopia , provided clothing and food for 400,000 people in Mozambique and helped over 100,000 children in India gain literacy skills . |
| 3 | For seventy years we have been slaves to the tyrannical French . |
| 4 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 5 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ For ten years we have sat and watched Diana being destroyed . |
| 7 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 8 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 9 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 10 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
| 11 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 13 | In recent years we have learned much about the internal anatomy of cephalapsids and galeaspids which had a bony skeleton surrounding the brain and gills . |
| 14 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 15 | In recent years we have devoted substantial resources to reorganising our education systems in the UK and we see this continuing . |
| 16 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 17 | My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise . |
| 18 | In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in interest and the range of activities , ’ said Mr Deighton , whose wife Maura was also a founder . |
| 19 | Over many years we have together worked towards the day when all the people of South Africa are able to vote for a government of their choice and be in control of their own destiny . |
| 20 | Over recent years we have been subtly conditioned into an expectation that charities and voluntary organisations should legitimately be used across an ever-increasing range of services . |
| 21 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 22 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 23 | As I said in answer to an earlier question , over recent years we have agreed 19 directives on the social dimension — more than anyone else in the Community — and we have implemented them . |
| 24 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 25 | For two years we have been refocussing the organisation of the profession and defining our key objectives . |
| 26 | ‘ For seven years we have been gypsies , wandering with no home . |