Example sentences of "for decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Theatre Association , mentioned in the first edition of this book , has for decades offered professional and all-embracing training courses for actors , directors , and young people . |
| 2 | His home was ever open , a centre of wisdom and influence for decades ; admired even by cabinet ministers from Britain . |
| 3 | They were so ubiquitous that grounded bodies used as sheds will be a feature of Britain 's farmyards for decades to come . |
| 4 | Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today . |
| 5 | How could Pound continue to proclaim this , when his own writing for decades before had belied it ? |
| 6 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
| 7 | When old nationalisms come to the surface , having been suppressed for decades , it can be in a pure and dangerous form . |
| 8 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 9 | It results from and reflects power , patronage and politics in our society — and it is detested by those who must live for decades in its shadow . |
| 10 | The Hungarian Socialist Party , he said , now faces the even greater task of creating democracy in a country run dictatorially for decades , in full awareness of the possibility of being devoured by its creation . |
| 11 | The brewing group has been the subject of intense speculation for decades . |
| 12 | For decades , as the Royal Commission on Wealth and Income demonstrated in the late 1970s , those disparities were modified by the social benefits available under the welfare state . |
| 13 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 14 | So St Margaret had sat in her empty court feeling neglected for decades . |
| 15 | They came mainly from Stockholm or , at least , southern Sweden and most had been trudging these paths for decades . |
| 16 | The precedent for a Bentley imbued with the genuine bulldog spirit was created as long ago as 1982 by the Mulsanne Turbo , the first red-blooded carriage to roll out of Crewe for decades . |
| 17 | They reveal that the system has problems detecting , identifying , or jamming some enemy radars already in existence for decades . |
| 18 | Man had used the environment as a dustbin for decades . |
| 19 | Both President Menem and Mr Gonzalez scorned the endlessly complex theories which had plagued economic policy in Argentina for decades , persuading one government after another to impose controls on everything . |
| 20 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 21 | For decades , the major industrial nations have used coastal seas as the dumping ground and receptacle for a wide range of industrial and agricultural toxins and waste products . |
| 22 | The St Lawrence River drains the Great Lakes , and both Canadian and US industries have been pouring toxic wastes into the lake and river system for decades , creating an increasingly lethal environment for the beluga . |
| 23 | For decades he has ditched , diked and drained the edges of the Everglades until all that is left is a barely viable core . |
| 24 | Geared to local economic needs , dominated by businessmen rather than bureaucrats and financed by a mixture of public and private money , TECs originally promised a genuine break with the Whitehall-dominated past : a chance , at last , to give high-quality training the priority so often denied it for decades . |
| 25 | Daniel Yergin 's recent book ‘ The Prize ’ shows that oil has for decades been cosseted with tax breaks and government subsidies . |
| 26 | Having been exporters for decades , Japan 's car makers are at last becoming real multinationals , with factories all over the world . |
| 27 | Macmillan also left income-tax rates alone , hit cigarette-smoking and made stern noises about public expenditure ; and he presided over the highest interest rates for decades — bank rate was a horrific 5.5% . |
| 28 | But one distinguished academic argues they will continue to dominate world markets for decades to come |
| 29 | For decades the main aim of every enterprise was to meet or exceed government-set output targets rather than to improve production methods . |
| 30 | Upstate city-dwelling environmentalists are not much welcomed by conservative and strongly Mormon southerners who have mined , logged and ranched the land for decades . |