Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm buildings were empty for many years , but have now been restored . |
| 2 | The canal was derelict for many years , but now flows again to produce electricity for the neighbourhood ; and it still makes a pleasant summer evening walk from Tavistock to the tunnel mouth . |
| 3 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 4 | In this research , palynology was dominant for many years but subsequently enormous potential has been offered by research developed by F. Oldfield on mineral magnetic properties which are valuable because many magnetic properties are environmentally diagnostic , are preserved for long periods in many situations , and have parameters which are easy to measure . |
| 5 | The house and gallery date from 1640 , though the house was derelict for many years and restored in 1920 . |