Example sentences of "years [pron] have [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 2 | ‘ For the past three years I 've been a respectable married man , young lady . |
| 3 | All these years I 've been an idiot . |
| 4 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 5 | There has , however , been a change of climate in recent years which has been a result of the pressures for accountability spelt out in Chapter 1 . |
| 6 | And in addition to that , am I right in saying , for thirty years you 've been a nun ? |
| 7 | In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations . |
| 8 | For years we have been a low productivity low-wage plant and we have ended up losing our jobs and all the new investment opportunities . |
| 9 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 10 | There was the cold empty space in the bed beside her , the space where for over thirty years there had been a warm , reassuring presence . |
| 11 | In recent years there had been a considerable increase in the revenue derived from tourism . |
| 12 | There was no intention of converting Purley Depôt to a bus garage , as although of a more regular shape , its only entrance was on a busy part of the main Brighton Road and over the years there had been a number of near misses with other traffic , when trams were entering or leaving and the local press had conducted a campaign against its dangerous location . |
| 13 | So , over the years there had been a number of leather bags added to those under the loose floor boards beneath the bed in which she now spent her nights and , in her time , expected to die … |
| 14 | For some years there had been a gathering discontent around the boisterous arrival of working-class people at holiday resorts , where the Bank Holidays were regularly associated with heavy drinking , shrieking girls and the occasional free fight . |
| 15 | If it could be shown that over the years there had been a major redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor , this would indicate a reduction in class inequalities . |
| 16 | Most of the courses lasted for 6 hours ( one day ) or 12 hours ( two days ) but over the past 5 or 6 years there had been an increase in the number of shorter courses . |
| 17 | Over the years there have been a number of fatal towplane accidents caused by gliders getting too high and jerking the towplane into a steep dive . |
| 18 | Over the years there have been a number of relief organists amongst whom are . |
| 19 | Over the years there have been a great number of electronic games concocted for the hobbyist , including one or two cricket games . |
| 20 | During the last few years there have been a number of discoveries suggesting that conodonts may be vertebrates . |
| 21 | Over the years there have been a number of theoretical divisions of purchases into different groups , depending on the importance of the decision to buy . |
| 22 | During the last few years there have been a series of policy changes which have altered the composition and reduced the real level of income available to full-time higher education students ; for example , the introduction of student loans , and the reduction in access to welfare benefits . |
| 23 | In recent years there have been a number of studies reporting the isolation of mycobacteria from patients with Crohn 's disease , but it has been reports of the isolation of M paratuberculosis , which have generated the greatest interest . |
| 24 | In recent years there have been a number of wide ranging official reviews of most aspects of UK competition policy , which have involved widespread consultations with academia , business and other interested parties . |
| 25 | He was saying what happened was the last three years there 's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else . |
| 26 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 27 | I 'm a widow of 70 and for the past eight years there 's been a very persistent man in my life . |
| 28 | It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers . |
| 29 | Over the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of rigs available from shops . |
| 30 | There is no village now , but for a thousand years there has been a manor . |