Example sentences of "many years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years they had formed part of The Market Place surface . |
| 2 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 3 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 4 | For many years we had a well known er . |
| 5 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 6 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 7 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 8 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 9 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
| 10 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 11 | She had commented on its goodness to Clare , who guessed at how many years it had lain fallow ; five — six ? |
| 12 | I do n't know how many years it went on and then there were a lot of ploughs and boys a lot of their own ploughs I think . |
| 13 | For many years it lay ignored in store , but was restored a few years ago ; its lack of finish is particularly significant . |
| 14 | For many years it hung in Thorpe Hall . |
| 15 | Even Saudi Arabia , which encouraged its citizens to give money to the Afghan rebel cause — for many years it matched America 's covert financing — is now trying to stop the flow . |
| 16 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 17 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 18 | After so many years I kept up this contact , especially with one or two who were real friends . |
| 19 | For many years I had the somewhat perverse view that instead of rewarding the salesman who always got the business , we should reward the one who lost it . |
| 20 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 21 | For many years I marched to a music in comparison with which the military music of the streets is noise and discord . |
| 22 | For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast . |
| 23 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 24 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 25 | For many years he lived with his mother . |
| 26 | For many years he edited the Cefn Chronicle and later worked for the North Wales Newspapers group . |
| 27 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 28 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 29 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 30 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |