Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 2 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 3 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 4 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 5 | On average , says the study , buying a share at its initial offering and holding it for three years yielded a total return ( dividends plus capital growth ) of just 8% . |
| 6 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 7 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 8 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 9 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 10 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 11 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 12 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 13 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 14 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 15 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 16 | We should closely look at why this flopped before suggesting it for next year as another failure would be demoralising . |
| 17 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 18 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |