Example sentences of "many years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 2 | The ETB has been critical of hotel telephone call charges for many years . |
| 3 | For many years caterers could obtain only dried pasta . |
| 4 | Brum based Brian Travers , producer and director of musical films for many years , and well known saxophonist in the internationally renowned band , UB40 , has already made his mark on the music industry . |
| 5 | I used to teach Italian architecture many years ago and , I do n't know , I like it there I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | Those old , glazed rope-twist tiles seem to be hard to find nowadays , and the ones in the picture will have been in the garden for many years . |
| 7 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 8 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 9 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 10 | ‘ But many years ago , a wise old man said fall in love and you may fall flat on your face , but pick yourself up and rush towards the next one , knees bleeding , face bruised , arms open , heart on fire . ’ |
| 11 | Drovers had pastured their herds here for many years but their customary right had vanished when Flemyng bought the ground and it was a daily vexation of Cameron 's to move the animals out from among his materials and even from inside the unfinished walls . |
| 12 | These were acknowledged publicly by no less a figure than a former Prime Minister , W.L. MacKenzie King , at the communal celebrations of Lyon 's 60th birthday and his 35th anniversary of engagement in social interests , as well as those of his friend of many years ( to whom Lyon Cohen had diverted the honour of being invited to be the Member of Parliament several years before ) , Sir Samuel W. Jacobs , KC : ‘ Our friend finds himself today , ’ , commented Jacobs , ‘ the acknowledged leader of Jewry in Canada , a position acquired by years of self-denying effort … respected by his own , and also by the larger community in which we dwell . ’ |
| 13 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 14 | This soon gave rise to such names as Hank Ballard And The Midnighters , Georgie Gibbs , The Clovers , Ruth Brown , Joe Hill and , not least , Leonard 's idol of many years , Ray Charles . |
| 15 | Unquestionably , the loss of his father was felt as a grievous blow for many years after the event . |
| 16 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 17 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 18 | The book was offered with a sharp recollection of his own family , not only regarding his father 's absence of many years ( whose duty it was , formally , to say the prayer ) , but in the dedication of the book , another link with the past broken , another mainstay , albeit distant , removed : ‘ This book is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother Mrs Lyon Cohen , and to the memory of my grandfather Rabbi Solomon Klinitsky . ’ |
| 19 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 20 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 21 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 22 | After many years of indecision , in December 1981 BR obtained approval for the electrification of the main line from Colchester to Ipswich and Norwich and also the Harwich branch . |
| 23 | 11 June saw the reopening of a station closed thirty-five years previously and the opening of the first new inner-London station for very many years : Hackney Central and Hackney Wick on the ‘ Cross Town Link Line ’ between North Woolwich and Camden Road , a promise of greater things to come . |
| 24 | Other internal Scottish Region expresses to Aberdeen and Inverness also became part of the Provincial empire , even though their carriages were still branded ‘ InterCity ’ for many years after sectorisation . |
| 25 | Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times . |
| 26 | The yard was a product of piecemeal development over many years and found an important role in the air-braked wagonload network ( Speedlink ) from the 1970s onwards . |
| 27 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 28 | His delicious Pas des Légumes performed at a special performance to mark the market 's passing brought to mind the long history not only of the ‘ fruit and veg ’ , but also of Harlequin , Columbine and their colleagues of the commedia dell'arte , inhabitants for many years of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , and the King 's Theatre , Drury Lane , where the first ballets d'action were staged . |
| 29 | The above approach towards any type of character role is a very typically English trait and has been used in music halls , pantomimes and comedies fur many years . |
| 30 | And who knows how many years will then have passed since George Orwell wrote about his ideal pub ? |