Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
| 2 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
| 3 | The brew is still fermented for days , using the same yeast which has been working for years and years . |
| 4 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 11 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 12 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |
| 13 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |