Example sentences of "[noun sg] have for some years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 2 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 3 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 5 | The use of a written procedure was pioneered in the House of Lords where each party has for some years been required to lodge a ‘ Case ’ with the court which is very similar to the skeleton arguments more recently introduced in the Court of Appeal . |