The phrase "addressed for years" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a particular issue or topic has been dealt with or discussed over a long period of time.
Example: "The environmental concerns have been addressed for years, yet progress remains slow."
Alternatives: "tackled for years" or "discussed for years".
But that solution may not be addressed for years and in the meantime, airlines deal with O'Hare in their own ways.
Yet in all likelihood, these reform ideas won't be addressed for years to come.
An issue addressed for years is the energy source that sustains the intense radiation of the IPT.
Besides, the above-mentioned estimation/detection/localization problems have been addressed for years by the signal processing community, this resulting into large number of well-known algorithms and solutions.
I'm finding it really easy to remain politically neutral here, because this isn't a party-based problem; the idea that these machines could be running wild with our votes without being addressed for years is a failure of the entire system of oversight.
Recognition that chronic microglial activation and pathologic TNF concentration are targets that may be therapeutically addressed for years following stroke and other forms of acute brain injury provides an exciting new direction for research and treatment.
It is something state policy makers have known and have struggled to address for years.
Gmail has supported "plus" addressing for years, and with it, you can get multiple addresses out of one @gmail.com account.
Indeed, the very notion of race as biological category seems to be part of a past century, a fact that some artists have been addressing for years.
Ms. Chenevert added that no development proposals would get very far unless the town addressed its inadequate sewers -- a problem she and others had been trying to address for years.
Earlier this month, North Carolina became the first Southern state to ask the E.P.A. for relief under the Clean Air Act from pollution that blows in from out of state -- a problem the Northeastern states have been trying to address for years.
