Sentence examples for standing for years from inspiring English sources

They had been built as temporary accommodation after the second world war but had been left standing for years.

That dried-out stems remain standing for years and are regularly replaced results in an opportunistic, but stable association where colonies are sheltered by one generation of dead C. alatus while the live individuals nearby, belonging to the next generation, provide them with nectar; in turn, the ants protect their flowers from herbivores.

The schools, many of which have been standing for years, do not have clean water supplies or hand washing facilities.

Leaf blades are trisect and spiny, and dry out completely in the autumn following the growing season of their extension, although they remain standing for years (Damascos and Ghermandi 2007; Damascos et al. 2008; Fig.  1).

But I objected that it was so solid that it would be standing for many years.

The surrounding forest is left standing for many years in order to provide shelter and seed.

She reportedly turned down $1m£640,00000) to continue living in her home, which had been standing for 100 years.

Here in Wyoming, officials decided to allow those structures put up before 2003 to remain standing for five years, a period that ended in April.

Bank of England consulted American firm about installing permanent heating system in building that has been standing for two hundred years and will probably be… Seventy architects who studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris sail May 21 to present fifty foot flag pole.

The New Yorker, April 11 , 1931 P. 13Bank of England consulted American firm about installing permanent heating system in building that has been standing for two hundred years and will probably be in use for another five hundred.

By Doree Smedley and Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, April 11 , 1931 P. 13Bank of England consulted American firm about installing permanent heating system in building that has been standing for two hundred years and will probably be in use for another five hundred.