Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for year " in BNC.
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1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
2 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
3 | CAMPAIGNERS look likely to win their fight for more nursery places in an area of Darlington which they claim has been deprived for years . |
4 | The strongly held belief that the teaching of reading is the sole prerogative of the professional ( together with a tenacious preservation of its mystiques ) has been accepted for years . |
5 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
6 | The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston . |
7 | Our share of world trade has been falling for years under successive governments to the extent that the purchasing power of our currency has roughly halved since 1945 . |
8 | The Merseyside Police Raft Race has been running for years and during that time has raised vast sums for local charities . |
9 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
10 | Prediction is inaccurate , and one is reminded that economic recovery has been forecast for years by a party in government that is supposed to have great financial expertise . |
11 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
12 | The brew is still fermented for days , using the same yeast which has been working for years and years . |
13 | Charlemagne has been fighting for years in Spain , and has almost completed its conquest from the Saracens . |
14 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
15 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
16 | The public has been rebelling for years . |
17 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
18 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
19 | The ARC marked the start of a liveaboard adventure that the Codd 's had been planning for years . |
20 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
21 | It is interesting to think that had they snatched — or preferably caught cleanly — that victory , the pattern of English Test cricket might have been changed for years ahead , for , as the other four matches were all drawn , a victorious first series might have given Botham 's captaincy the shove it needed to get airborne . |
22 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
23 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
24 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
25 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
26 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
27 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
28 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
29 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
30 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |