Example sentences of "[vb pp] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand-knitted sweaters are hot fashion items this winter , and can be treasured for years to come . |
| 2 | There was more than one couple in his parish who had communicated for years only by note or through neighbours . |
| 3 | Jack , he must of been painted for years , he 's been on ship . |
| 4 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 5 | She felt relieved and began to express feelings she had hidden for years . |
| 6 | With a grin , Doyle said , ‘ I heard of a German bloke who kept one of our lads hidden for years after the War . |
| 7 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 8 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |
| 9 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 10 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 11 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
| 12 | This allows some spectacular spaces within , with rooms soaring into the roof space in a way that American architects have designed for years . |
| 13 | To find a simple joy in his supreme talent that the rest of us had enjoyed for years . |
| 14 | Prediction is inaccurate , and one is reminded that economic recovery has been forecast for years by a party in government that is supposed to have great financial expertise . |
| 15 | Later-life marriages are often relationships which contain within them intense feelings , whether of warmth , companionship and expression of sexuality , or of ambivalence contained for years ( Hemmings , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Clothes had n't mattered for years , of course , but towards the end of the eighties , the phrases power-dressing and anti-stress eating program had filtered through to her and now Alex dressed and ate for every occasion . |
| 17 | It was owned for years by a Swiss businessman , who installed ski-lifts where there was never any snow and scarred the hills with new tracks . |
| 18 | Its lemon fragrance is given off by the leaves without the need to rub them , unlike lemon balm and , even when dried , continue to be pungently scented for years , so that they constitute an excellent ingredient for potpourris . |
| 19 | Fiscal reformers — including members of the present government — have argued for years that it should be . |
| 20 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 21 | As he has done for years , Jean Pierson , Airbus 's boss , replies that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas get billions of dollars of ‘ indirect ’ support from defence programmes and NASA contracts . |
| 22 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 23 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 24 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 25 | It 's good to have someone to bounce ideas off and talk to — it 's something men have known about and done for years . |
| 26 | It will certainly not seem long if you work consistently toward daily targets , in a few weeks you 'll be doing things you have n't done for years , or never thought possible . |
| 27 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 28 | Every night I do something I have n't done for years . |
| 29 | Arguably , however , many do and have done for years . |
| 30 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |