Sentence examples for for years mainly from inspiring English sources

The boar hunter had been going to Berghain for years, mainly for the music and the sex.

It is a critique that has been leveled for years, mainly by a small group of liberal economists who have gained little traction even on the Democratic side.

These deals (and another with Panama) have languished for years mainly because of Democrats' — more to the point, their union backers' — lack of enthusiasm for free trade.

The public versus private debate within the New Jersey high school sports community has raged for years, mainly in the north and especially in football.

Simulated golf has been around in Europe and the United States for years, mainly as a teaching aid at golf clinics or on cruise ships where passengers are no longer allowed to hit balls into the ocean.

Although prices have fallen for years, mainly as the result of supermarket competition and pressure on suppliers, in recent months the increasingly international market for milk has also played a part.

Completed in 1915, the theory was valued for many years mainly for its mathematical beauty and for correctly predicting a small number of phenomena, such as the gravitational bending of light around a massive object.

Antonia Kanczula worked as a freelance lifestyle writer for eight years, mainly for women's magazines.

Composite patches (carbon or boron fibres) have been used for many years, mainly for research purposes, in aircraft maintenance.

Safety valves were designed and used for many years mainly for steam applications or distillation installations throughout Europe.

Hospital laboratories have used mass spectrometry for many years, mainly for the analysis of therapeutic drugs and drugs of abuse, but lately also as multiplex assay analyzers for endogenous markers.