Example sentences of "[verb] for decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | His home was ever open , a centre of wisdom and influence for decades ; admired even by cabinet ministers from Britain . |
| 2 | This will restrict the readership considerably , and this is a shame , for it is , and will remain for decades , the main book on the subject . |
| 3 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 4 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 5 | It is therefore unlikely that the need for housing at the airport will arise for decades . |
| 6 | As British economists know only too well , it is easy to turn a blind eye to unwelcome truths of this kind and to indulge for decades in a form of national self-delusion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Daniel Yergin 's recent book ‘ The Prize ’ shows that oil has for decades been cosseted with tax breaks and government subsidies . |
| 9 | Apart from propping up the Senate , Bonn has for decades provided lavish incentives for business and individuals to stay in , or move to , west Berlin . |
| 10 | often regardless of the ground to be covered , has for decades been the equivalent of an hour a day . |
| 11 | First , the hon. Gentleman should not underestimate the immense force of major legislation presented by the Lord Chancellor in the past three or four years — not least the Children Act 1989 , which has entirely restructured the law on children and paved the way for the family court , and the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , one of the most important pieces of legislation in this field to appear for decades . |
| 12 | The pictures that curators tried for decades to coax or pry off the Barnes 's walls will also travel to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and then to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo . |
| 13 | Commenting that the social theories of Marx , Engels and Lenin were rooted in 19th and early 20th century realities , Gorbachev complained that " we tried for decades to find answers to all contingencies of life in quotations from classics , forgetting that they [ Marx , Engels and Lenin ] had themselves insisted on taking into account the historical circumstances behind any theory and mocked those who had sought to convert Marxism into a kind of scripture " . |
| 14 | OUR nation has pursued for decades the policy that has substituted machines and technology for human lives . |
| 15 | They have argued for decades as to whether we are a result of our environment or our genetic inheritance , and there are always supporters for each extreme as well as for every position in between . |
| 16 | And then he did something else he had not done for decades , in fact since he was a boy in his beloved Poland . |
| 17 | The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation , for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries . |
| 18 | Stochastic effects are of course long-term and would probably not appear for decades . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Changes in water quality brought about by changing land use may thus not be seen for decades . |
| 21 | In Robert Dole , the top Republican in the senate , he faces the most effective leader of the opposition that Washington has seen for decades . |
| 22 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 23 | Organised crime is running wild since the collapse of Eastern Europe 's borders allowed communist gangs , incubating for decades on meagre pickings , to burst their bounds . |
| 24 | Fazekas de St Groth calls his system ‘ ascites without the mouse ’ ; it is based on a method used for decades to Brow bacteria in suspension . |
| 25 | It flourished for decades , with manufacturers vying with one another over technical developments , styling and warranties . |
| 26 | It seems as though this is what has kept all those trekkies going for decades . |
| 27 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 28 | With a little maintenance , these houses stand for decades . |
| 29 | After rising for decades , concentrations of ozone-depleting halon gases in the atmosphere are now levelling off , according to a study by the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) . |
| 30 | Producing furniture that is to be used and enjoyed for decades requires a corresponding attention to detail . |