Example sentences of "been [verb] for years [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 3 | Prediction is inaccurate , and one is reminded that economic recovery has been forecast for years by a party in government that is supposed to have great financial expertise . |
| 4 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 5 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 6 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 7 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 8 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 9 | Since workwear , for want of any better term , is n't really new in this country at all ( American denim brands like Lee and Levi 's are hardly passing fads ) and since the more recent brand arrivals here have been worn for years in the US and Australia , hype accusations are a little misguided . |
| 10 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 11 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 12 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |