Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [det] years " in BNC.
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1 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
2 | But perhaps the greatest satisfaction is the knowledge that you have created something of the beauty that is going to be there for many years . |
3 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
4 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
5 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
6 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
7 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
8 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
9 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
10 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
11 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
12 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
13 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
14 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
15 | have n't been there for many years |
16 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
17 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
18 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
19 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |