for years

I had been researching the money system for years, and I knew it was a non-sustainable system.

I didn't for a moment think he had the same feelings, but we talked as though we had been friends for years.

You want me to wear that old dress to the ball? I'll have egg on my face for years! ---But vintage is stylish now.

I anticipated that I would be served up with fine thoughts that had been kept bottled up for years.

Because he knew that reason why Patrick was so depressed was that he did the same sort of job for years and years.

For years, these activists have kept up the whistle blowing on the company to try to get it to reduce the amount of waste it's discharging.

I don't know. I've had customers leaving keys here for years. Sometimes they pick them up in a few days. Sometimes it takes a few weeks.

For years, it pottered along, weighed down by the regulations that made up the licence raj, producing only a feeble "Hindu" rate of growth.

Because of a family feud, he never spoke to his wife's parents for years.

For years it had used the threat of its veto to keep North Korean adventurism off the Security Council's agenda.

Look at this advice as a sales pitch: "Turn your money over to me for years, and I will charge you fees for the long term. "

At the meeting I happened upon an old friend I had not seen for years.

There was no identification inside. Just three dollars, and a crumpled letter that looked as if it had been carried around for years.

There has been a rumour mill on him for years.

For years, personal experience and expert advice have been widely used in managing risk and have proved to be very useful and practicable.

He adds, "It seems odd. . . He's been living in Switzerland for years and I've visited him there, so this is all very strange. "

The Small House Movement has been around for years, encouraging people to think about how much house they really need.

But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules to break as he struggled for years to tell his own life story.

He might have thought he could not go wrong by opposing a "war from which we may not be able to free ourselves for years" .

For years, private financing has been used to create embryonic stem cell lines, mostly from discarded embryos from fertility clinics.

Shockwave has been imprisoned underneath Chernobyl for years and is now seeking revenge from his captors and enemies.

Now it was as though she had known Millie for years.

TORONTO (Reuters) - "Forgive me a freakout moment here, " I wrote to a woman's-only Internet bicycling forum I've been posting on for years.

Now it was as though she had known Tom for years.

The company is one of the largest importers of sewing machines, we operate various brands of sewing machines for years.

Food companies have been trying to make effective satiety-inducing foods for years, but with little success.

Not long after I got home, Mother got married to Dick Kelley, a food broker she had known for years and had been seeing for a while.

"For years, women have been thought of as the big spenders, splashing their cash on clothes, " he said.

I think that this lens has found a place in my camera bag for years to come.

We looking for SEO Partner for years for a huge project. As you know everyone says that he is good, but only a few are good.

In the winter Prince Andrey had come to Bleak Hills, had been gay, gentle, and affectionate, as Princess Marya had not seen him for years.

In essence you just did what MUD creators have been trying to do for years, to simulate life.

The stress of his wife's illness is constant, he said, harder on him than stresses he faced for years in the political arena.

I was lucky; I heard about him for years, and I finally met him earlier this year at his museum in Chengdu.

For years, it was a sort of journalistic sport for newspapers and magazines to send reporters to New Hampshire in hopes of a sighting.

Kerry argued that Headland had been losing money for years and so was no longer able to offer much competition on price anyway.

For the sake of taking care of him, his younger brother BECame his shadow, never leaving him alone for years.

Calling Ali "a fierce fighter and a man of peace, " Bush said, Ali's fighting style would be studied for years but defy imitation.

SA: Huh. You know, I've been a member of this prestige class for years, and I never actually noticed that before.

She stopped to draw a deep breath and then went ranting on. It seemed she had been wanting to say all this for years.

Last evening an old friend whom I had not heard from for years (rang) up and we had a long chat over the phone.

Marsh tall, gentle, gentle, love Michelle, persistent pursuit of her for years, until she did get her divorce.

Academics have been arguing for years that part of China's emissions growth should be chalked up to the Western consumers who buy the stuff.

Everything's ready to go, but I don't think any guests have checked in for years.

The bank expects the company's annual production to grow by a percentage in the mid-single digits for years to come.

For years all he received for his efforts was rejection and ridicule, yet he did not relent and continued developing his theories.

The manager and his secretary had been carrying on for years, but his wife never knew.

Their party coasted on protest votes for years, latterly pretending to be some sort of left-wing conscience for Labour.

He has not ventured outside his tiny house for years because his wife is in a coma, and he does not want her to wake up and find him gone.

The room looks as if it had been empty for years.

For years now the populist prophets of new media have been proclaiming the death of books, and the marketplace seems to back them up.

She had fought for years trying to pass a bill to protect women against domestic violence.

Last evening I was rung up by an old friend whom I had not heard of for years.

There was a good chance you wouldn't see that person for years, because you wouldn't be allowed to leave Cuba.

I've been struggling with this question for years, and now I think I've seen enough to take on an honest attempt to answer this question.

So, you know, for years I would go to bars and sort of anyone I met who's name was Eric I was humping immediately, or something.

U. S. electric companies are projected to spend $14 billion a year over the next 10 years to make up for years of underinvestment.

The moment that Donna heard the news, Cheryl later told me, she rushed to put on a wedding dress that she had been saving for years.

That would have been a decent return for the food and medical supplies America has lavished on this government for years.

Consensus is elusive. "We've been talking about this for years, " he said.

"I had sleep problems for years, but there was no one to help me, " he says.

This is a long term program which makes the psychology behind sticking to the plan for years easy to understand.

It is of little use to work for years toward a goal if you give up just a few days before the goal is reached.

For years I forced her to spell words in the bathtub with foam letters, to do worksheets, to memorize phonemes and take practice tests.

It speeds up any developer's work for years to come -- at the cost of just a couple of working days.

Carlos Ghosn vowed to make Nissan -- which had been losing money for years -- into a profitable, globally competitive company again.

In a shoe store, shoes of medium width turn over quickly, but a pair of narrow shoes may not be sold FOR years.

For years she was dependent on drugs and alcohol and it was only in her fifties that she finally managed to overcome these addictions.

But the wallet contained only three dollars and a crumpled letter that looked as if it had been in there for years.

For years he had made a practice of riding unmanageable horses, and he never heard of a vicious brute without wishing to try it.

Turkey was a NATO ally and was hoping to be admitted to the European Union, a development I had been strongly supporting for years.

By the end of a day he always felt as though he had been gone for years leaving her defenceless.

Image sprites are easy to implement and big companies like Google have been using them to save bandwidth for years.

This myth, particularly popular among psychics, is widespread and has been used in advertising campaigns and popular culture for years.

Contrary to what medical experts have been saying for years, a new study suggests salt may not be as bad for the heart as commonly believed.

The book is likely to sell strongly for years to come, so why rock the boat with a price war?

With that being said, it's safe to agree the question of what makes a person a prostitute or not has been debated for years.

For years his style influenced many animation makers, maybe his drawing style was more expression and easy to get favor from children.

He caught me gazing at the thick black spiky forest matting his head. "I've been dyeing it for years " he said.

For years I've been trying to keep my husband happy but I think he might be getting some action on the side.

FOR years now, the UN has talked a good deal about, and made a good show, too, of including "civil society" in its work.

Having lived without freedom or family for years, he made a promise to himself never to be weak or overpowered again.

She herself had really thought deep down in her heart for years.

For years, ripples at the surface of the Dead Sea hinted there was something mysterious going on beneath its salt-laden waters.

Apple's environmental troubles have been a thorn in the company's side for years.

Jack: With me killed, you'd arrive at the cove, find it a stronghold, nigh impregnable. . . able to withstand blockade for years.

Advertisers did not suddenly wake up to the Internet; they have been shifting growing portions of their budgets online for years.

The game is commercial aviation, and Pratt has been a laggard for years despite a strong presence in military engines.

That Miss Blanche has been setting her cap at him for years.

One of his subjects was himself, since he's been a bike racer for years.

For years, ripples at the surface of the Dead Sea hinted there was something mysterious going on beneath its salt-laden waters.

Apple's environmental troubles have been a thorn in the company's side for years.

Jack: With me killed, you'd arrive at the cove, find it a stronghold, nigh impregnable. . . able to withstand blockade for years.

Advertisers did not suddenly wake up to the Internet; they have been shifting growing portions of their budgets online for years.

The game is commercial aviation, and Pratt has been a laggard for years despite a strong presence in military engines.

That Miss Blanche has been setting her cap at him for years.

One of his subjects was himself, since he's been a bike racer for years.

My brother and I haven't spoken for years so I've decided to have it out with him and try to be friends again.

Take the National Hockey League, ice hockey's premier body, which has for years been trying to expand its audience and commercial reach.

For years, this sort of backhaul has mostly come from incumbent telcos offering expensive, symmetrical dedicated lines to the tower site.

For years, this sort of backhaul has mostly come from incumbent telcos offering expensive, symmetrical dedicated lines to the tower site.

The belief stems from the observation that beans kept in the dark for years will sprout when they're brought back into the sun.

Listening to other people's problems every day, all day long, for years on end, has made an old man of me.

LEDs have been used for years in displays that require only limited resolution and color, such as found on alarm clocks and microwave ovens.

We've been doing it this way for years; don't rock the boat by trying to introduce new methods.

When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, she was already known as the heroine who for years had been fighting the enemy.

Tom, you were in office for years. You know all civil service tricks.

But six weeks into her treatment with Prozac, she began to feel relief of a kind she had not known for years.

For years it was the bane of every British schoolchild's life.

He knew so much, he explained, because for years he had been the lawyer in charge of obtaining construction permits for Wal-Mart de Mexico.

He knew so much, he explained, because for years he had been the lawyer in charge of obtaining construction permits for Wal-Mart de Mexico.

This helped hone Martin's own understanding of folding, which had been a hobby of his for years.

A lucky child might get taken up for a "flip" around the sky, price five pounds. It was a lot of money, and I did not fly for years.

She said she had come across an old friend in the street whom she hadn't seen for years.

Buffett tends to be a long-term investor and has held positions in corporations like Coca Cola for years.

But I decided that if I kept silent it would go on for years and no one would do anything about it.

Tom has been a chain smoker for years. You know, old habits die hard.

I could have met him in any city in any country in any time, and he still would have treated me like he had known me for years.

However, the members of Elevator Repair Service had been wanting for years to perform the play in New York, where the company is based.

If it had not been for he stands, the American economy could setback for years.

For years, experts have predicted a shake-out with the fervour and inaccuracy of cult members heralding the next messiah.

Son: You know Mr. Jones and Mrs. Williams? Well, you've been treating them for years, but I cured them both in a week.

But such a bid might be passed on to a committee within the council, where it could be stuck for years.

" state of the art" is not a new expression. Engineers have used it for years, to describe the best and most modern way of doing something.

For years I just blithely assumed that, despite my obvious lack of enthusiasm for the job, I got to keep it, that it was mine for ever.

This specific book has been following me for years now, coming in and out of sight as it got moved from one apartment to the other.

FOR years I have been trying to lend him of my plenty, but he has always steadfastly refused to put the bite on me.

and said that he had been looking for him and his mother for years.

In the truck, Michael wonders how his mother could be a Company agent, and watch for years as her children were hunted down.

Call me a fool, but for years I did not know you could barter with retail stores on major purchases.

Fortunately, a relative of his mother's side started in the uncle's call, the focus on large corporations for years.

For years I had been searching, For that perfect fantasy, But, I find it in my arms, right now, You are all to me.

Fisher's been doing it for years and is often asked if it takes all the fun out of love. She says no.

She told me that she had worked for years for an insurance company.

He'd been a regular at the church for years, but she had joined only recently.

A girl whose father sexually abused her for years asks, "Why should I forgive him for that? "

China has actually been trying to exploit the U. S. -Japanese relationship for years now.

It may be easy to do such things for once, twice. . . but if you do them for years?

Many of the vast majority of students eventually rejected by the system never make up for years of lost education.

"They limit scarring and the outbreak of pimples. They're exceedingly effective and have been used for years, " Margolis said.

"Haven't had one of these for years, " he murmurs, sitting down on especially plumped-up cushions while I remove his shoes.

The noun, Geek has been used for years as American slang, to describe bookish, socially awkward people.

For years we were told that self-sufficiency was an outmoded concept, and that it was safe to rely on world markets for food supplies.

For years, he had been as shy as Daphne; but when prices rose so much, he was forced to ask his boss for more money.

For years, Lucille Jackson battled gangs and extreme violence in her community to provide hope for her 17-year-old grandson.

He said he had known Ms Letizia's father for years and dropped by when a gap arose in his schedule.

It was a look-out built for the public, but I had the feeling that no one had been there for years, certainly no tourist.

The T-1000 led John down the dark corridor. They were in the basement level of the factory. It had been abandoned for years, it seemed.

Acquisition Furthermore, the acquisition of this bottle cured him of a bad habit he had been developing for years.

It cut her to the heart to think that for years he had been used in so infamous a fashion.

He was like a cat, if I may put it this way, whom you live with for years but who never allows you to get under his sacred skin.

He was lying through his teeth when he said he'd never seen her before; they've known each other for years.

Teachers have known this for years, at least anecdotally. Mr Fryer found a way to measure it.

Instead, they shunt the unsavory secret into a dark corner of the mind, where they try, alone, for years to make sense of it.

For years, people have been trying to come up with ways to use all the rest of the plant to make fuel.

While Apple did make Macs, the company had been losing sales for years and was commonly considered to be on the verge of extinction.

This time, as a result of the bank rescue, some big banks may be paying no dividends at all for years.

I don't know. . . I have customers leaving keys here for years. Sometimes they pick up in a few days, sometimes takes a few weeks.

Trying to get a head start by pushing early academics can backfire, causing difficulties for years to come.

He's been a professional musician for years, gigging all over the country.

We have been out of touch with my grandparents for years and is trying to get in touch with them by radio.

Orchiectomy has been used for years to slow or stop the growth and spread of prostate cancer.

While scientists have had evidence of water on Mars for years, the previous general conclusion was that it was all frozen.

After no one had heard from him for years, John popped up in town again.

Consequently, the classpath has been a thorn in the side of both new users and experienced Java programmers for years.

She greeted me as if she had known me for years.

For years it had been my sole purpose to get accepted into a top institution.

For years, as you know, knowledge and information throughout the world have been localized.

For years, as captain of a one hundred foot sword-boat, Greenlaw braved dangerous weather, and was away from home for months at a time.

For years, scientists have been trying to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells through the use of solar concentrators.

Debbie's father will set out with her in a small boat. Mr. Hart has trained his daughter for years.

We've got to rebuild this economy and the sense of security that middle class has felt slipping away for years.

And BP is facing civil and criminal probes and a wave of litigation that could tie it up in the courts for years.

The long-nosed baiji had been critically endangered for years, due to pollution, overfishing and shipping along the Yangtze river.

The innovative ultrasonic technology has been used for years in the research and diagnostics.

She had to grapple with her homosexuality for years until she couldn't keep it bottled up and decided to come out.

For years theorists figured that other stars would have planets more or less like the ones going around the sun.

In practice, no great apes have been used in Europe for years and there are no breeding colonies from which to take them.

It's been gone for years and most Americans would sell their personal data for a $50 a year, so long as you promised them a free Diet Coke.

But is plagued with a deep fear of commitment, the role led to a string of questions, many people have been wanting to ask her for years.

You could also take all of your digital photos and turn them into a Photobook for you to keep and share for years to come.

This gene has been studied for years, but scientists did not know it was linked to itching.

But it was not until 1971, when he was 40, that he finally felt ready to write down the verses that had been brewing for years within him.

For years, the U. S. manufacturing sector seems to have been sliding into the Slough of Despond.

Practically all have been with him for years, some for decades.

Sit-ins, or sit-downs, had been used by striking workers worldwide for years. But the idea was new to the civil rights movement.

North Korea has for years relied on its nuclear build-up to squeeze aid from its neighbors and the United States.

As a negotiator, he left the toughest lawyers in the dust, and yet for years he had been fascinated by Zen Buddhism.

For years, he has neglected the print encyclopedias, he said in an interview, and now prefers to use his iPhone to look up facts quickly.

Several friends have been pushing me to write such a book for years, but I never really had time to write a complete book until now.

For years, the company has been a close partner with H. P. , whichsells computing systems and services to corporations.

It is as if she had known me for years.

He was an only child and incarcerated for years in an all-male boarding school, before going to an all-male Yale.

See, there's a hospital in Atlanta that's been trying to steal me for years.

So then one day he began crying to God , saying, Ive been praying to You for years just to win the lotto so that I could build my house.

If you've been with someone for years and you're about to be married, what's the point of one final fling?

And with foreign assets cheaper than they have been for years, Beijing is going on an international spending spree.

A young man in XXX is tired of sleeping on the floor, so he bought a real bed after saved up for years.

His overcoat HAD been worn for years, and was already mended in quite a few places.

We've used this fin for years for breaststroke, and using it to go through the exact same progression adds a bit more PUSH to your kick.

And the market is now waking up to the realization that global economic growth might remain suppressed for years to come.

The village looks as though it had been deserted for years.

However, too many commentators talk as if Chinese banks have been on a lending binge for years.

Mr. Obama said it was a memory that burned in him for years.

But we've got to be honest, the best teams in the world have been together for years.

Addressable advertising has loitered on the horizon for years, but seems to be advancing at last.

I had followed Islam for years, having grown up in an area of Burnley that was almost exclusively Asian.

bills relating to garden cards for years and use the power of interpretation to the garden and greening the city of Xuzhou Authority.

Mr. Obama has made clear that he has no enthusiasm for "nation building" projects in Afghanistan that go on for years or are unsustainable.

I've been trying to get mamma to do something about it for years, and now you are in Chicago, it's our chance.

Experts say many are unlikely ever to be allowed to go back and Tepco is expected to face steep compensation bills for years.

Apparently, he had been undermining my romantic relationships for years in an effort to keep me for himself.

At least some of the nuclear power plants approved at the State Council meeting have also been planned for years.

Prosecutors had been investigating him for years, and soon after, he faced new charges that he molested a 13-year old cancer survivor.

Moreover, PIL cases were being given priority over other cases, which had remained pending in the court for years.

For years Galbraith's most famous book was "The Affluent Society" , which came out in 1958.

Some of those who have had it for years will have had no idea until they started to get sick.

Alternative trading platforms have been a feature of the US share trading landscape for years.

For years he gathered up cheap cars and mechanical things that he thought he might fix and use someday.

Bennett said his grandmother taught him to knit when he was a child but he stopped for years "because boys don't knit. "

The truth was that for years I thought he worked for the phone company.

Make it a night you'll remember for years to come!

For years, China has made the case that it is not ready to reform its foreign exchange mechanism.

Because oil now costs much less, many have had to write down the value of those contracts, even if they are not due to be settled for years.

The sight of that wally hiding under a brolly at Wembley Stadium will haunt me for years to come.

"For years she was a huge support. She protected me from the conflicts at home as I prepared for the Gymnasium, " says Thai Le.

His skull was rimmed in purest gold and used for years by the kings of the Ashanti as a ceremonial drinking vessel.

He has left home for years. We can imagine how much he misses his hometown.

Yet Jakarta has no metro and is not likely to get one for years, if not decades.

Although the problem lingered for years, Xiang said he had no regrets about not repairing the problem earlier.

People who have been blind for years or all their lives are now able to detect motion, the direction of motion, and various spatial forms.

He had thought about this for years, wondering how he might visualise time.

Sam had smarted for years under his father's low opinion of him.

For years, the would stared at the spreading AIDS disaster and argued whether effective AIDS care could ever be practical in poor countries.

Her advisers struggled for years before she became chancellor to get her to sharpen her pageboy haircut and frumpy clothes.

Farmers in parts of the United States have struggled for years with an invasion of red imported fire ants from Brazil.

Yes, a very old one. I've been meaning to fix it up for years but I just haven't found the time.

I think you know people like you are more than one, furthermore, we have been working in this way for years.

Coming from the station it was like a long dream. I felt as though I had been away for years.

Acertain Mr. Williamson, who had lived for years in London, decided to break with the past and seek a new life overseas.

For years I saw companies pitching themselves as "mobile coupon companies" and I never believed this would be a big idea.

The chemistry is based on some of the same principles that have been safely used for years in mildly activated rosin fluxes.

I hope I will be able to put the experience behind me someday and go on, but for years it has haunted me.

Several days later, James moved out, and I entered the state of acceptance and mourning that I had been circling for years.

It was Howard who cut the legal circus that allowed illegal immigrants to play the system for years, until we gave up trying to deport them.

The romantic note went missing for years but strangely turned up in a university mailroom earlier this month.

But like many of my friends and I, these people are putting their wallets away and hunkering down for years of economic malaise.

Although the educational department concerned has studied this field for years, it has never entered the classroom up to now.

"No, no, no! " said the man. "I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I've been trying to do that for years! "

He had defended himself in court for years and had even asked for a presidential pardon.