Sentence examples for it existed for years from inspiring English sources

It existed for years in those mountains' shadows and needed attention.

The building has an interesting history even beyond that; its first certificate of occupancy that I could find is from 1922, but city records suggest that it existed for years before that.

In a 2007 book documenting La Via Campesina's first 10 years, Desmarais remarked that one of the most striking things about the movement is the simple fact that it exists: for years, everyone from the theorists of classical socialism to the proponents of industrial capitalism had predicted that peasants would eventually disappear.

Scientists first reported it in Europe, where it has existed for years and it killed 90percentt of the trout in some areas.

It has existed for years but it's hard to know how common it is as neither the government nor Ofsted keeps figures.

"It existed for 201 years, and in the year 2008, it's time to say I'm sorry".

At the same time, it's no excuse to eliminate journalism as it has existed for years.

Technology to replace low-skilled or repetitive jobs is not something we're waiting for; it has existed for years.

Plugging up a volcano is no small affair, but surprisingly, the technology for doing it has existed for years, unrecognized, in the most unusual of places -- the neutron bomb.

But establishments like it have existed for years in the garment district, offering inexpensive lunchtime fare to textile workers, much like the no-frills 10-cent lunch counters that flourished in downtown buildings at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

In another, people who were told that acupuncture had been in existence for 2,000 years expressed more favorable attitudes toward it than those who were told it existed for 250 years.