Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kinnock question has dogged Labour for years . |
| 2 | On Wednesday members of the planning applications sub-committee seem certain to approve the work on the 200 yard strip of land which has lain derelict for years . |
| 3 | On Wednesday members of the planning applications subcommittee seem certain to approve the work on the 200 yard strip of land which has lain derelict for years . |
| 4 | Not overtly futuristic , yet made to look modern for years to come . |
| 5 | But she was twenty-four , she 'd lived alone for years , she needed no nannying or nursemaiding . |
| 6 | Soon after Haig-Thomas had left us we passed a shrine to Sheikh Husain ; the white-washed dome with four turrets had been built to commemorate a place where the saint had lived alone for years , praying and fasting . |
| 7 | It had lain undiscovered for years among the papers of the Grove family ( then of Wiltshire , now of Dorset ) , through which Hawkins was sifting as he researched Hardy 's subsequent relationship with Agnes Grove , Harriet 's kinswoman . |
| 8 | Strict segregation had held firm for years and , as in boxing , a world series for blacks was organized in the 1920s . |
| 9 | ‘ Pluto is renowned for bringing up things that are buried , so we are going to see revealed things that have remained secret for years . |
| 10 | In the Gulf of Maine , commercial mackerel fishermen have kept silent for years about the number of harbour porpoises dying in their nets . |
| 11 | A row of houses that have lain empty for years since being bought by publisher Robert Maxwell look set to remain derelict , after being left out of a plan to redevelop the area . |