Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] for years " in BNC.

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1 CAMPAIGNERS look likely to win their fight for more nursery places in an area of Darlington which they claim has been deprived for years .
2 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 .
3 The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston .
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 A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot .
6 ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us .
7 It is interesting to think that had they snatched — or preferably caught cleanly — that victory , the pattern of English Test cricket might have been changed for years ahead , for , as the other four matches were all drawn , a victorious first series might have given Botham 's captaincy the shove it needed to get airborne .
8 The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years .
9 He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 It was worn and comfortable-looking , like an old , well-loved piece of furniture that had been kept for years .
13 The broken stag had been known for years .
14 They were staccato with a violence and bitterness which Sabine , stunned , guessed had been suppressed for years .
15 It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years .
16 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 .
17 The top floor directly overhead had been abandoned for years .
18 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 .
19 Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works .
20 Other areas of South Wales have been blighted for years , while renewed threats are now being made to cut open parts of Clwyd 's countryside .
21 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 .
22 Since workwear , for want of any better term , is n't really new in this country at all ( American denim brands like Lee and Levi 's are hardly passing fads ) and since the more recent brand arrivals here have been worn for years in the US and Australia , hype accusations are a little misguided .
23 Peterson Strobe Tuners in particular have been used for years by professional musicians because of their superior accuracy .
24 Tetracycline and erythromycin have been used for years , though minocycline is now increasingly considered as a preferable and safe alternative .
25 Condoms have been used for years to prevent unwanted pregnancy but are also an effective barrier against sexually transmitted diseases including HIV .
26 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 .
27 Around forty of these drawings have been known for years from books and exhibitions , but as things are , I am the only person in the world at the moment to have complete knowledge of what that collection was in its entirety .
28 It 's been condemned for years now .
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