Example sentences of "for years [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry James was followed by the Benson brothers , E. F. Benson the novelist and A. C , for years Master of Oxford 's Magdalen College — I wonder if anyone has succeeded in editing the twenty-six volumes of autobiography he left . |
| 2 | the Basic Studies Coordinator for Years land 2 , who had already been involved in cataloguing and layout of the library ; |
| 3 | She 's now one of the hottest names in television , but for years writer Lynda La Plante was a bit-part actress , struggling against typecasting . |
| 4 | He was like , he was on the dole for years man , he was lucky to get that but I mean he used to . |
| 5 | For years trade-union women have been made to feel guilty when pushing so-called ‘ women 's issues ’ . |
| 6 | For years company pension schemes have argued that a pension fund surplus rightfully belongs to the employer — hence the proliferation of contribution holidays . |
| 7 | For years Judaism was suppressed in the Soviet Union , practised behind closed doors , and often in fear . |
| 8 | ‘ Outside broadcasts ’ are reminders that for years TV was a cumbersome medium , happiest in the studio or on set piece occasions such as the Cup Final , which could be planned well in advance . |
| 9 | For years management gurus have been predicting the demise of autocratic management and the pyramidal organisation structure . |
| 10 | For years lunch had been a twenty-minute affair . |
| 11 | For years visualization has been an everyday part of my life as it is an everyday pad of every writer 's day . |
| 12 | Well I have n't been in there for years mind but when , the last time I went in there the clothes was lovely . |
| 13 | For years Amber were told that the problem lay in the lack of a London release . |
| 14 | For years topology has been forced to labour under the analyst 's yoke ; all open sets and compact spaces instead of knots and Klein bottles . |
| 15 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 16 | For years plant breeders have attempted , with varying degrees of success , to breed such characteristics into new crop varieties , eg , mildew resistance in cereals . |