Example sentences of "[verb] for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Linen is very popular today and it seems certain that trend will remain for years ’ , says the Guild 's spokeswoman Rita Vail . |
| 2 | but the mystery will remain for years to come . |
| 3 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 4 | Hand-knitted sweaters are hot fashion items this winter , and can be treasured for years to come . |
| 5 | They continue to mourn for years after the death or loss of their love but their loneliness was just as real when their partner was alive . |
| 6 | There was more than one couple in his parish who had communicated for years only by note or through neighbours . |
| 7 | Jack , he must of been painted for years , he 's been on ship . |
| 8 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 9 | One might labour for years and then discover that one 's thoughts simply concealed some devilish machine . ’ |
| 10 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 11 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 12 | I mean for years when I was young I was jet black and that was lovely . |
| 13 | In all of Britain 's great cities , majestic terminals went out of use and lay for years rotting like gigantic beached whales in the noonday sun — Manchester Central , Liverpool Exchange , Birmingham Snow Hill , Glasgow St Enoch 's . |
| 14 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 15 | She felt relieved and began to express feelings she had hidden for years . |
| 16 | With a grin , Doyle said , ‘ I heard of a German bloke who kept one of our lads hidden for years after the War . |
| 17 | Between the covers , the endpapers are elegant and sepia-tinted : at the front a romantic photograph of Menabilly , the large , elegant house in Cornwall where du Maurier and her family lived for years , and , at the back , a mirroring idyllic picture of du Maurier and her three young children , sitting , in all the innocence of short white socks , on a fallen tree trunk with a wide view of the sea behind them . |
| 18 | ‘ That is something we asked for years ago which has not been implemented , particularly because Dublin is not prepared to co-operate with London in what they would see as interning Irish citizens on Irish soil . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 20 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 21 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 22 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 23 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 25 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 26 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
| 27 | Flats empty for years are now occupied . |
| 28 | The freeze on spirits duty acknowledges , if it does not yet rectify , the wholly unjust domestic tax regime against which the Scotch whisky industry has had to struggle for years . |
| 29 | This allows some spectacular spaces within , with rooms soaring into the roof space in a way that American architects have designed for years . |
| 30 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |