Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] for [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 2 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 3 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 4 | This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years . |
| 5 | John Ambrose has been turning for many years , delighting competition judges and spectators with his originality and precision . |
| 6 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 7 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 9 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 10 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 11 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 12 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 13 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 14 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 15 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 16 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 17 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 18 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 19 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 20 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 22 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 23 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 24 | And the NRPB 's move also emphasized a process that had been continuing for many years . |
| 25 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 26 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 27 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 28 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 30 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |