Example sentences of "for [adj] years there " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For some years there has been a tendency " in professional examinations to use fixed multiple.choice questions . |
| 3 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 4 | For many years there have been proponents of the theory that one of the ‘ lobe-finned ’ fishes included the ancestor of the tetrapods , and it is not difficult to imagine their stumpy fins , with a fleshy core , making the uneasy transition into a walking leg . |
| 5 | For many years there was a tradition that the noted scholar , Roger Bacon , had been educated in St Mary 's Chapel , Chalford ( this later becoming the mill ) , although by Rudder 's time , this had been effectively disproved . |
| 6 | For many years there was much debate about how pillow lavas formed . |
| 7 | The two tram routes departed from opposite sides of the central loading island in the Square , where for many years there was an ornamental drinking fountain and later a stone shelter and underground toilets . |
| 8 | For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors . |
| 9 | For many years there has been an ongoing debate concerning the human author of the first five books of the bible . |
| 10 | For many years there were rumours of Egyptian vultures breaking open ostrich eggs by throwing stones at them at close range . |
| 11 | For many years there were political overtones in this opposition , with Citrine seeing Randall as the representative of a capitalist rump in the industry which must be controlled . |
| 12 | For many years there was no whole-school curriculum policy at Sutton . |
| 13 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 14 | For many years there has been a considerable amount of interest in the extent to which industrial relations play a significant role in explaining variations in economic performance . |
| 15 | For many years there have been worries over the increasing monopolisation of British industry , as evidenced by increased levels of both aggregate and market concentration , and for which there is little doubt that merger activity has , at times , been a major causal factor ( see e.g. HMSO 1978 , Hughes 1989 ) . |
| 16 | Hosts : Horses and donkeys Site : Caecum and colon Species : For many years there has been a great deal of confusion in the classification of this group of parasites and in a recent revision it has been proposed that the genus Trichonema be discarded and replaced by four genera , namely Cyathostomum , Cylicocyclus , Cylicodontophorus and Cylicostephanus , these being collectively referred to as cyathostomes . |
| 17 | for many years there 's been what 's called the ‘ Rate Equalization Subsidy ’ which has gone from areas of high rateable value to areas of low rateable value such as the middle of Lancashire — central Lancashire , and other parts of the country . |
| 18 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 19 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 20 | For several years there has been a major breed improvement and production scheme in France to increase its genetic merit and select the best breeding stock from a nucleus of 45,000 recorded cows . |
| 21 | For several years there have been complaints from Bramshott residents about flooding , erosion of banks and the neglected state of the path . |
| 22 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 23 | He used to export half his rice crop , but for four years there has been no export and so no incentive to grow more than he needs . |
| 24 | For two years there has been debate over the future of the club 's home ground at McMullen Road , Darlington . |