Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 2 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 3 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 4 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 5 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 6 | In America , slow population growth means that housing starts have been falling for years . |
| 7 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |
| 8 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 9 | As opinion polls have been showing for years , hardly anyone believes the stuff about overmighty robber barons and wildcat shopfloor militants now . |