Example sentences of "for years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years they had lived with his mounting paranoia , the ever-more-irrational purges of his intimates , then entering an even more extreme phase with the totally imaginary ‘ Doctors ' Plot ’ . |
| 2 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 3 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 4 | For years they were both happy to live like Englishmen . |
| 5 | For years they have educated and delighted us . |
| 6 | For years they suffered in silence while barriers were pranged , concrete bollards damaged and other cars blocked in as the 23-year-old careered around looking for a space in the car park . |
| 7 | For years they have marched , waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege . |
| 8 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 9 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 10 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 11 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 12 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 13 | For years they taunted bitter cross-town rivals Linfield for being a sectarian football club , for making Windsor Park a no-go area for Catholics . |
| 14 | For years they were greeted with a filthy snigger and a knowing wink . |
| 15 | For years they went on and on and on and everything they took and that was from eight o'clock in the morning was either from Marks and Spencers or British Home Stores . |
| 16 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 17 | And our love does not depend on anything , though for years we saw nothing of each other , still we should love . |
| 18 | For years we have been a low productivity low-wage plant and we have ended up losing our jobs and all the new investment opportunities . |
| 19 | For years we had requests from political people , parties , you know , around the country , to allow other ministers to go forward and we said ‘ No ’ . |
| 20 | For years we have had the technology for every constituency headquarters to be linked to a central databank of key information . |
| 21 | For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ . |
| 22 | In a letter to the Stanford committee on research , the faculty said : ‘ For years we have been able to tell visiting school children , student , engineers , scientists , laymen and the press that we are here to do basic research on the fundamental properties of matter and that we do not do any military work . |
| 23 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 24 | For years we have taken its plentiful , unadulterated supply for granted . |
| 25 | For years we had studiously avoided visiting the island of Bali on the quite false assumption that its international airport and beach hotels placed it beyond our professional interest . |
| 26 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 27 | For years we urged rulers there to let their people go and to make their people free . |
| 28 | FOR years we have claimed to have the best butchers in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | For years we plodded on : bought a house , had two kids , never really knew what the other was thinking . |
| 30 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |