Example sentences of "on for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debate on Southcom 's future , which has dragged on for years , was put on hold when American relations with General Noriega reached rock-bottom . |
| 2 | And court cases could drag on for years . |
| 3 | Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book . |
| 4 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 5 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 6 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 7 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 10 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 11 | I 'd like to compliment ZZAP ! on a great mag which I 'm sure will go on for years to come ( ho ho ho ! — Ed . ) |
| 12 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
| 13 | It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years , when it should have been released long before . |
| 14 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 15 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 16 | The litigation will probably drag on for years . |
| 17 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 18 | Usually , a stallion drives his sons out when they reach sexual maturity ( the fillies wander off , to be snapped up by some lucky bachelor ) ; but some stallions will allow their sons to stay on for years , co-opting their help in defensive action or mare-collecting raids . |
| 19 | An analysis may go on for years , so the free associations , and the dreams recalled , will be conditioned by the analytic process itself , the patient 's contribution increasingly representing the assumptions of the analyst . |
| 20 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
| 21 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 22 | And this went on for years this ? |
| 23 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
| 24 | So for one reason or another , people stay on for years in Special Hospitals , sometimes hundreds of miles from their home area , denied the opportunity to develop a normal life for themselves again . |
| 25 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 26 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 27 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 28 | You 've gone on for years about being the only person in the West Country with the faintest notion how to prune roses . ’ |
| 29 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 30 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |