Example sentences of "been [verb] for decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 2 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 3 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 4 | In the mid-1980s the Uighur students called for independence from China , as the Tibetans have been doing for decades . |
| 5 | Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades . |
| 6 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 7 | The American navy has been tinkering for decades with ‘ silent drives ’ to out-fox the sonars on enemy ships . |
| 8 | Plans to revise that law , which dates from 1936 , have been discussed for decades , and have been before legislators for eight years . |
| 9 | Hangman 's Wood suffered so severely from the gales because , like much of our woodlands , it had been neglected for decades . |
| 10 | The American versus British female stereotype is a trans-Atlantic difference of opinion that has been raging for decades . |
| 11 | It has been advocated for decades , GCSE has helped the process , but it has taken the pressures generated by the national curriculum to bring an integration of library and subject work . |
| 12 | When old nationalisms come to the surface , having been suppressed for decades , it can be in a pure and dangerous form . |
| 13 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 14 | Like the ‘ Samson ’ , it is an important rediscovery , once in the Demidoff Collection , that had been missing for decades and was last seen in at the C.L.Cardon sale in Brussels in 1921 . |
| 15 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 16 | Plainly , events such as the Durham Miners ' Gala , which has been held for decades fall within the rubric . |