Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I 've been stuck for years now |
| 2 | The dispute , which has been simmering for years , came to the boil in April when Michael Harcourt , the province 's premier , revealed a scheme that would protect 33% of the region , permit limited logging in 17% , and open the rest to extensive ( although , at least in theory , well-managed ) timber harvesting . |
| 3 | Increasingly such flats have come to be part of a system of ‘ less eligibility ’ for those households whose actual behaviour is judged not to conform to the domestic ideal : women single parents dependent on state benefits , families with housewives who are defined as ‘ poor ’ housekeepers by other women employed by the local authority to make such judgements ( Ungerson , 1971 ) , families headed by men who have been unemployed for years , and single women ( Austerberry and Watson , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |
| 5 | But — yes , the poor old thing is rather queer — in fact , she 's been mad for years , so you see now why I needed no special qualifications . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been worried for years about their tendency to see Britain as a soft market in which to make a killing . ’ |
| 7 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 8 | It has been true for years of much of manufacturing ( completely differentiating the position of , for instance , Peugeot-Renault in France from British Leyland , or Bull from ICL ) . |
| 9 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 10 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 11 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 12 | It 's been clear for years ( ever since the Hayward exhibitions The Other Story : AfroAsian Artists in Postwar Britain and Art in Latin America met with such dismally insular reponses from most of the critics ) that massive justification is needed for any exhibition that seems ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |