Example sentences of "spent many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent many years arguing for government support for the British fashion industry — and getting nowhere — she can not be blamed for opting to manufacture and show abroad . |
| 2 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 3 | According to Koen Van Waerebeek , who has spent many years studying the dolphin hunt , hardly anyone in Peru is aware of the true nature of chancho marino . |
| 4 | I have not been kind to my back ; I had accidents when I was a boy , tree-climbing and biking , and I have spent many years skiing . |
| 5 | In the experience of the National Council for Carers and their Elderly Dependants , it is often single women who have spent many years looking after parents who experience the greatest difficulties in being alone . |
| 6 | The computer has dealt what will prove to be a mortal blow to the ‘ priesthood ’ of printing — those who have spent many years gaining the skills needed to turn a typescript into a printed page . |
| 7 | WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me . |
| 8 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 9 | Our team of spreadsheet experts have spent many years developing a complete range of dedicated Lotus 1–2–3 Business Planning Templates designed to suit every size of company and type of industry . |
| 10 | Helped by Mr Jorge Vicente , they have spent many years sorting and cataloguing the 100,000-plus glass negatives , and further collections from other old photography studios have been added to make a complete photographic history of the island and those who visited it . |
| 11 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 12 | Having spent many years in Betws-y-Coed Railway museum , it has now been retired and most of the motion overhaul has now been completed . |
| 13 | Other people have spent many years in hospital and could no longer live outside it . |
| 14 | She had spent many years of her adult life in Page Street and most of her old friends still lived there in the row of terraced houses . |
| 15 | They settled in England after Frits had spent many years serving in the Dutch Merchant Navy . |
| 16 | In the discussion which follows we shall draw a simplistic distinction between spoken and written language which takes highly literate written language as the norm of written language , and the speech of those who have not spent many years exposed to written language ( a set which will include most young undergraduate students ) as the norm for spoken language . |
| 17 | His ambition was stimulated by Nnamdi Azikwe , a Nigerian , who had spent many years ( 1925 — 34 ) in the United States doing graduate work at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 18 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 19 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 20 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 21 | Frejji is completely at home in zerograv , having spent many years building magni-freighters among the moons of Cytostom . |
| 22 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 23 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 24 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 25 | But having spent many years building up an effective distribution network , we see no reason why this network should be given away to our competitors . |