Example sentences of "for years [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 2 | Macmillan 's exceptionally successful Mexican operation has been in place for years but now Mexico is everyone 's tip for the top — ‘ The most exciting country in the region , ’ says David Phillips of Linguaphone ; ‘ The biggest without doubt , ’ says David Stewart . |
| 3 | of reduction of er emissions then in fact you have got to reduce the consumption of erm hydrocarbons er as interesting as the Liberal party has said for years but now er pretends it had nothing to do with erm , er V A T on fuel . |
| 4 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 5 | It was an old thing he had had for years but only recently learnt to use , taught by one of the boatswains in Taheb 's fleet . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was going fast , I pictured something that I 've pictured for years and yet never noticed . |
| 7 | She talked with all the unconscious confidence of a woman who has seen and understood the effects of her beauty on other people for years and yet there was an individuality about her that Julia had not expected , and a strange wistfulness . |
| 8 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 9 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 10 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 11 | I had carried you around inside my mind for years and here was total stranger kissing you . ’ |
| 12 | He was thirty-six years old and had heavy family commitments ; it was late in life to change course , but he had hankered after the theatre for years and now decided to follow his instincts . |
| 13 | Buttocks have been a problem for years and now they are greatly reduced . |
| 14 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 15 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 16 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 17 | No , it was too much for him to understand ; he could stay here for years and never understand it . |
| 18 | Kalb had it for years and never saw the marks . ’ |
| 19 | I 've thought about this for years and never told anybody … |
| 20 | I 've had it for years and never bothered . |
| 21 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 22 | on long , summer evenings ) and quite another to go up to a girl , even one I had known for years and actually do such a thing . |
| 23 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 24 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 25 | One might labour for years and then discover that one 's thoughts simply concealed some devilish machine . ’ |
| 26 | It stood empty for years and then in nineteen ten some benefactor purchased it . |
| 27 | People who are paying seventy eighty pound a month mortgage who 've had them for years and then |