They go on for years, then all of a sudden--" Our young friend listened to the mate with a queer sense of discomfort growing on him.
I found in it this sentence: 'For years I tried to make a friend of that girl; but I warn you once more that she has the nature of a heartless adventuress .
She was positively the only thing, the one point where his thoughts found a resting-place, for years.
For years I had not looked on a woman, or heard a woman's voice--but I knew that this was a woman mourning.
He has been living on me for years, the old ruffian, ever since his right eye was gouged out by his rival in the affections of the Marechale of the dancing-girls.
For years from my garden wall I watched them with a passion of envy, with bitterness, almost with hatred sometimes.
For years I have been tending towards it--who knows why?
I know that, and have known it for years; but how to do it, without neglecting the daily necessary work?
I certainly have not been more happy, if so happy, for years, and they need no convincing there of my doting attachment to the place.
That will indeed, humanly speaking, be a terrible loss to his family, for they want his fatherly care, and will do so for years.
For years a service pension has been bestowed upon the Grand Army on reaching a certain age.
For years he had been reading Jarby's Encyclopedia, and among its ten thousand and one subjects he always found something new.
For years he had thought of woman only as a possible customer for Jarby's Encyclopedia.
With a desire to explain the numerous names of animals, plants, and places, which are derived from the Tupee language, I have studied it for years that I might be able to use it fluently.
The material for this work also had been growing upon his hands for years.
And yet, for years, I have not received a letter which has given me greater pleasure or moved me more deeply.
For years I have not learned so much from a book as from yours.
For years afterward on the last Thursday of June (the day of the annual closing of the school) a meeting of the old pupils was held at the Museum, which did not exist when the school began, but was fully established before its close.
For years Spider has been a sort of clearing house for the underworld--for years he has conducted, and profitably, too, his underground post office.
For years, as a mining engineer, I made a good salary--and I saved it.
Especially would it be expected to be known to Pete Lazanis, commonly called the Runt, who was a power below the dead line and, more pertinent still, one in whose confidence Jimmie Dale had rejoiced for years.
To feel her response, that was what, for years now, he had been wanting, and never once had she responded.
You are away from us for years, you come back to us and expect things to be the same.
For years he has been using the money that was intrusted to him, until the deficit now amounts to twelve millions.
His ability to dissimulate, for years, his double existence, proves, on the contrary, a wonderful amount of duplicity.
It seems that these embezzlements had been going on for years, but had been skillfully concealed by false entries.
The villains who have been pursuing me for years must be satisfied now.
For years he had been upon good terms with Tantor and his people.
He knew the jungle well, and he knew that men have lived alone and naked among the savage beasts for years; but a frail and slender girl!
For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organizing power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer.
For years I've been dreaming of the bright green fields and the hedges of England.
The poor man was now shown his place in the shop, and once again he resumed his work, though under a far different impulse than had, for years, nerved him to action.
For years before I came to this place, I had been a slave to intoxication--a slave held in a fearful bondage.
For years, they had not felt towards him the deep and yearning tenderness that now warmed their bosoms.
I am conscious that I have mastered thoroughly the principles of my profession--and that, in regard to surgery, particularly, I possess a skill not surpassed by many who have handled the knife for years.
For years past, it has been evident to intelligent observers that no bar exists to illimitable progression, both to North Carolina and the great American Republic, except in the senseless and cruel sectional hostilities.
There had been, for years, many crimes committed by pirates upon the ocean just along the North Carolina Coast.
A firm in Statesville have been, for years past, employing large capital in this business, which seems capable of indefinite extension.
It was impossible that she could miss him much, a father with whom she had spent for years so little of her time.
Her maid, a woman who had been with her for years, was in charge of the case except when Lady Sellingworth was actually in the train.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for years" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
