Example sentences of "[noun] have been [vb pp] for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other books have been championed for years by obsessed option-owners , like Saul Zaentz 's doomed production of Peter Matthiesen 's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord , and Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , the latter understanding that cult novels ca n't usually be filmed at all . |
| 2 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 3 | It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years . |
| 4 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Budgets for prostheses have been used for years to limit elective orthopaedic activity because blocking the purchase of further implants stops joint replacement surgery , the ‘ bread and butter ’ of current elective orthopaedic practice . |
| 9 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 10 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
| 11 | Around forty of these drawings have been known for years from books and exhibitions , but as things are , I am the only person in the world at the moment to have complete knowledge of what that collection was in its entirety . |
| 12 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
| 13 | Tetracycline and erythromycin have been used for years , though minocycline is now increasingly considered as a preferable and safe alternative . |
| 14 | There is greater awareness of the problems of excessive placental transfusion ( hyperbilirubinaemia , polycythaemia and hypervolaemia ) than of the hazards of hypovolaemia , but claims of reduced preterm mortality with delayed umbilical cord ligation have been made for years . |
| 15 | Other areas of South Wales have been blighted for years , while renewed threats are now being made to cut open parts of Clwyd 's countryside . |
| 16 | Condoms have been used for years to prevent unwanted pregnancy but are also an effective barrier against sexually transmitted diseases including HIV . |