Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 6 | Charlemagne has been fighting for years in Spain , and has almost completed its conquest from the Saracens . |
| 7 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 8 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 9 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 10 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 11 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 15 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 16 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 17 | Since workwear , for want of any better term , is n't really new in this country at all ( American denim brands like Lee and Levi 's are hardly passing fads ) and since the more recent brand arrivals here have been worn for years in the US and Australia , hype accusations are a little misguided . |
| 18 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 21 | Peterson Strobe Tuners in particular have been used for years by professional musicians because of their superior accuracy . |
| 22 | Around forty of these drawings have been known for years from books and exhibitions , but as things are , I am the only person in the world at the moment to have complete knowledge of what that collection was in its entirety . |
| 23 | While everyone was careful to avoid the word ‘ black ’ in their statements , the fact remains that the ‘ minority ’ workshop , which was overseen by one Ramona Edelin of the National Urban Coalition , an urban action organisation founded in 1967 , was really a reflection on the efforts of some of the black inspired programmes that have been running for years in America . |
| 24 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 25 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |