Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [verb] for years " in BNC.
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1 | It is normally found in magazines rather than in newspapers , where the far less subtle advertising feature has been well established for years . |
2 | It is not true to say that a menstruating woman is unclean — she has a status of tameh , a word which has been wrongly translated for years as ‘ unclean ’ but which would be much better translated as ‘ impure ’ . |
3 | According to colleagues , he has been seriously complaining for years about the parasitic passivity of arts television , which simply points a camera at a performance conceived and organised by someone else . |
4 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
5 | Many public houses have been grossly neglected for years by their owners , yet the owners now demand that the tenants pay all the cost of putting the public houses into good order . |