Example sentences of "done for [det] years " in BNC.

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1 If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world .
2 In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine .
3 From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years .
4 He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy .
5 For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying .
6 He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years .
7 But eventually she persuaded us she meant it and we went and it was an invaluable experience meeting not only our missionary partner but the people among whom she lives and and works and has done for many years .
8 When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years .
9 It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years .
10 He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’
11 He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’
12 they 've been done for many years
13 Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years .
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