Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jack , he must of been painted for years , he 's been on ship . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | She started a craze for pearl chokers , which had not been seen in years . |
| 8 | The strongly held belief that the teaching of reading is the sole prerogative of the professional ( together with a tenacious preservation of its mystiques ) has been accepted for years . |
| 9 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 10 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 11 | The only other entrance was a small door to the left of the sanctuary but that was closed with a padlock , rusting with age , and obviously had not been opened for years . |
| 12 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 14 | The fir is a native of the European alps and periodic declines or Tannesterben ( fir-dying ) had in the past been attributed to years of drought or warm winters . |
| 15 | " The cabinets have not been cleaned for years . " |
| 16 | There was a little shop in my home town that I had liked very much , selling old bits and pieces , books and engravings ; all that was for sale was in a jumble , and the windows had not been cleaned in years . |
| 17 | All this in the most magnificent scenery , a national park where the natural forest has n't been logged for years and grazing sheep is prohibited so as not to upset the natural balance . |
| 18 | Now they have been washed by years of rain into earthy camouflage patterns . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The party leader , Kurt Schumacher , was a strong-minded social reformer and anti-communist , but his energies had been sapped by years in concentration camps under the Nazis , he refused to co-operate with ‘ bourgeois ’ political parties or the Catholic Church , and he had an abrasive , intolerant personal manner . |
| 21 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 22 | Peterson Strobe Tuners in particular have been used for years by professional musicians because of their superior accuracy . |
| 23 | It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years . |
| 24 | Tetracycline and erythromycin have been used for years , though minocycline is now increasingly considered as a preferable and safe alternative . |
| 25 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 26 | Condoms have been used for years to prevent unwanted pregnancy but are also an effective barrier against sexually transmitted diseases including HIV . |
| 27 | It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I know a way out of Parfois that has n't been used for years , but it 's still open if you know where to find it . |
| 30 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |