Example sentences of "years [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 2 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 3 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Over the past 10 years we have been striving hard to maintain the numbers of part-time firefighters which are needed for this vital community service . ’ |
| 5 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 6 | ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair . |
| 7 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 8 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 9 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 10 | ‘ Over the last ten years it 's been getting much worse . |
| 11 | The last two years it 's been falling apart so we have to ke kept kept folding the wheels back on |
| 12 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 13 | All these years he had been carrying on on the side and now here was actual proof of it . |