Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [verb] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 2 | Other books have been championed for years by obsessed option-owners , like Saul Zaentz 's doomed production of Peter Matthiesen 's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord , and Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , the latter understanding that cult novels ca n't usually be filmed at all . |
| 3 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 4 | It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years . |
| 5 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 6 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 7 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 8 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 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 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 13 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 14 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 15 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 16 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 17 | The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston . |
| 18 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 19 | Our share of world trade has been falling for years under successive governments to the extent that the purchasing power of our currency has roughly halved since 1945 . |
| 20 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 21 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 22 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 23 | Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales . |
| 24 | Budgets for prostheses have been used for years to limit elective orthopaedic activity because blocking the purchase of further implants stops joint replacement surgery , the ‘ bread and butter ’ of current elective orthopaedic practice . |
| 25 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 26 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 27 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 28 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 29 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 30 | In America , slow population growth means that housing starts have been falling for years . |