Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [been] [verb] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Charlemagne has been fighting for years in Spain , and has almost completed its conquest from the Saracens . |
| 7 | Other areas of South Wales have been blighted for years , while renewed threats are now being made to cut open parts of Clwyd 's countryside . |