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 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 .
3 Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works .
4 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 .
5 Tetracycline and erythromycin have been used for years , though minocycline is now increasingly considered as a preferable and safe alternative .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Condoms have been used for years to prevent unwanted pregnancy but are also an effective barrier against sexually transmitted diseases including HIV .
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