Sentence examples for figure for years from inspiring English sources

He's been a ridiculous figure for years.

Trevor Manuel, who leads the government's planning commission and has been a powerful, internationally respected figure for years, declined a nomination to the party's executive committee.

Mr. Chalabi has been a divisive figure for years in Washington, where top Pentagon officials favored him as a future leader of Iraq and top State Department officials distrusted him as unreliable.

By Jennifer Gonnerman The charges facing the embattled governor of Missouri have stunned voters, but in the tight-knit Naval Special Warfare community, Greitens has been a divisive figure for years.

While he's the kind of performer most people recognize but don't know from where, Mr. Barry, who headlines Caroline's comedy club on Friday, has been a well known if still underappreciated figure for years in the world of stand-up.

The drug industry has been ­tossing around the $1.3 billion figure for years, based largely on a study (supported by drug companies) by Joseph DiMasi of Tufts University.

"30,000 is actually our capacity out of the big summer events because we don't have the big outdoor marquees so a 25,000 crowd in a capacity of 30,000 is a tremendous figure for year one".

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Or fiddling their economic figures for years to get into a completely unsuitable fixed currency system.

Yet after finessing the figures for years, the Russian authorities simply lacked objective information.

Greece got away with phony figures for years until the crisis exploded.