Example sentences of "[pron] have for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had for years . |
| 2 | I have for years been recycling my NME s , principally to Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | None the less , I shall have to cut back on public expenditure , which has for years been outgrowing our capacity to pay for it . |
| 4 | Happily attempts are being made to change the colts qualifying date to September 1st from 1993 onwards rather than the anomalous January 1st which has for years disrupted team building by splitting units established over the years on the September date . |
| 5 | With their enemies confined to their bases , it must have seemed worth trying to contact the men from the UN , which has for years backed SWAPO . |
| 6 | The Bishop Auckland line which has for years been the subject of closure fears will get a better pattern of morning services . |
| 7 | In Los Angeles , another place where non-Hispanic whites are a dwindling minority , a 62-year-old white businessman is in a run-off for the mayor 's office against the young Asian-American who has for years been thought to be one of California 's most personable Democrats . |
| 8 | Oh aye you get to know people that you 've for years and years . |
| 9 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 10 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 11 | For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting . |
| 12 | Despite the collapse of communism , the concomitant crisis in left-wing ideas and the unravelling of the Eighties consumerist fantasy , they still maintain , as they have for years , that socialism is an evil malaise , while professing a support for Conservatism , as unblinking as that of a home counties Tory loyalist . |
| 13 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 14 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 15 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |