Example sentences of "[noun prp] for decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ironic that the British government should have gone through so many contortions over local government tax , finally to arrive at a system whereby the bulk of tax is raised centrally and distributed to the local authorities , while such a system has been the norm in Germany for decades . |
| 2 | Two CDU politicians , in comments seen as trial balloons for a longer debate , argued at the weekend that Bonn 's laws should allow dual citizenship to extend full rights to foreigners living in Germany for decades . |
| 3 | In the worst flooding in the States for decades , thousands of homes have been flooded , with New York and New Jersey also badly hit . |
| 4 | They have also been able to drive down costs faster than the locals and so create new export possibilities , even back to Japan ; a feat that has eluded Detroit for decades . |
| 5 | After all , rugby union has been the poor footballer brother to rugby league in Sydney for decades . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 8 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 9 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 10 | Fishing is let each year to the same people , many of whom have been coming to Brora for decades . |
| 11 | Hoover feuded with the CIA for decades and even , in 1970 , shocked Washington by breaking relations between the agencies altogether . |
| 12 | Above all , the English in the age of Bede created a vigorous culture whose ripples were to be felt across Western Europe for decades . |
| 13 | Rover 's Cowley works which has dominated this area of Oxford for decades … the play 's writers talked to current and former workers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There are some TNCs that have been operating in Latin America , Africa and Asia for decades and have won enviable reputations as model employers . |