Example sentences of "been [prep] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |
| 32 | There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income . |
| 33 | There is indeed , and has been for some years , discussion on the political level as to whether , and to what extent , public transport , particularly in capital cities , should be regarded , and financed , as a social service , out of taxation whether national or local . |
| 34 | Nine tenths of the Leicester ring road is finished and has been for some years . |
| 35 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 36 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
| 37 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 38 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |