Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] many years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 6 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 7 | John Ambrose has been turning for many years , delighting competition judges and spectators with his originality and precision . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 9 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 10 | 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 ) : |
| 11 | And the NRPB 's move also emphasized a process that had been continuing for many years . |
| 12 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 13 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 14 | 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 . |