Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its importance and grade II* listing , the treatment it has received in recent years has been disgraceful , and it is to be hoped a great many lessons will have been learnt about how to deal with irresponsible owners of such important listed buildings . |
| 2 | It would seem that the restoration profession has not been able to keep its nerve in the face of the rapidly growing attention it has received in recent years , and is reacting in an undisciplined way . |
| 3 | The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement . |
| 4 | It will be a vision of success from which everyone profits , a vision which the Profitboss has developed over many years , a vision in which he passionately believes and is able to communicate with enthusiasm to his team and every other employee in the organization . |
| 5 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 6 | Its reputation as the most beautiful bay on the west coast of Scotland has developed in recent years , not fostered by press and media publicity but by the enthusiastic recommendations of those who have been there . |
| 7 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 8 | In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 10 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 11 | The promotion means farewell to the Northern League middle , in which Winter has officiated for six years . |
| 12 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 13 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 14 | Sir David is a long term supporter of Save The Children and has sat for many years on the industry and commerce group . |
| 15 | The question of Mr Brown 's achievements has become more pressing because of a Californian term-limits law ( yes , another initiative ) which will eject him by 1996 from the assembly where he has sat for 27 years . |
| 16 | Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four . |
| 17 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
| 18 | In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole . |
| 19 | THE FIRST steam gala that the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley has organised in several years , took place over the weekend of Saturday-Sunday November 28/29th , and was acclaimed as an outstanding success in every respect . |
| 20 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 21 | In the 1980s the national governing bodies for canoeing and fishing got together ; they made some hopeful noises but nothing concrete has materialised in six years . |
| 22 | Captain Fred Barker is Senior Master with the hunt , a man who has hunted for 44 years . |
| 23 | Pressure for the conversion or redevelopment of historic houses and estates in financial difficulties has grown in recent years and is causing concern to those wishing to preserve the traditional countryside . |
| 24 | I want to suggest that there are three areas in which our understanding of writing has grown in recent years . |
| 25 | Mr Ayob added : ‘ Mrs Mandela appeals to the media not to concern itself with , nor speculate about , her personal relationship with her husband which has endured despite 27 years of imprisonment and many years of exile . ’ |
| 26 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 27 | Philip Tataurangi is 21 and a demon putter , arguably the boldest and best amateur golf has seen for ten years . |
| 28 | Yes , it is a bad winter , the worst he has seen in sixty-five years of herding reindeer here . |
| 29 | The number of students successfully changing fields has risen in recent years and now stands at 30 per cent of the intake . |
| 30 | While life expectancy has risen from 46 years in 1961 to 59 years in 1977 , 20% of the infant population still die before reaching the age of five . |