Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 6 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 7 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 8 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 9 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 10 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 11 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |
| 12 | In America , slow population growth means that housing starts have been falling for years . |
| 13 | Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales . |
| 14 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 15 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |
| 16 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 17 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |
| 18 | As opinion polls have been showing for years , hardly anyone believes the stuff about overmighty robber barons and wildcat shopfloor militants now . |
| 19 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |
| 20 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |
| 21 | While everyone was careful to avoid the word ‘ black ’ in their statements , the fact remains that the ‘ minority ’ workshop , which was overseen by one Ramona Edelin of the National Urban Coalition , an urban action organisation founded in 1967 , was really a reflection on the efforts of some of the black inspired programmes that have been running for years in America . |
| 22 | For example in the case of deep bed undergravel filters that have been running for years , a gravel cleaner is attached to the intake of the power filter and as the gravel is hoovered the mulm is trapped in the filter and clean water returned to the tank . |
| 23 | Trade unions , the Industrial Society , and the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service have been campaigning for years to improve employees ' rights over their retirement income . |
| 24 | I think it 's a most disgraceful system quite honestly , and my own party , and the Liberal Party before that , have been campaigning for years to get a fairer system , but there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this unfortunately . |
| 25 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |