Example sentences of "they have [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 2 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 3 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 4 | That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages . |
| 5 | Many rural branch railway lines disappeared in the early 1960s , while the bus services that have replaced them have in many cases been abandoned or severely curtailed . |