Example sentences of "we [verb] been [verb] for year " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
2 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
3 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
4 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
7 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |