All these years: For all of a period of time
Some Excerpts:
From TV shows, movies and novels
Bold and the Beautiful
Ronn Moss(Ridge Forrester) used the phrase “all these years” while talking to Susan Flannery(Stephanie Douglas Forrester) in the popular TV show “Bold and the Beautiful” as shown below:
Stephanie: She was never good enough for you. Look what she’s done.
Ridge: Look what you’ve done. Disrespecting the woman I love, mother, for years. How many times did I plead with you to accept her? You just wouldn’t accept her, no matter how much I asked you to.
Stephanie: I do love you, baby.
Ridge: I haven’t been your baby for a very long time. Look at me. All these years that I’ve wasted. When I think what I’ve put myself through with Brooke, Taylor and my kids — how I let myself be manipulated and controlled by you for so long. Brooke was my life. My life. And you couldn’t accept her. Now she’s gone. You’ve taken my life!
Similar words:
1) All along:From the very beginning
Usage:
Do you think he’s been cheating us all along?
2) All the while: For all of a period of time
There I was thinking you were hard at work and you were upstairs in bed all the while!
3) All this time
All this time I was blissfully unaware of the situation.
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