Значения для термина "lain for years" отсутствуют.
1 There they had lain for years , till they were dead and covered with moss.
2 Dormant they might have lain for years - perhaps through life-ifall exciting causes had been shunned.
3 There was a wooden box, swollen with the wet sea-water in which it had lain for years .
4 This volume had lain for years in a corner of his garret, half buried in dust and rubbish.
5 Perhaps they had lain for years in some dim bazaar of Stamboul, forgotten under heaps of old stuffs.
6 The rest had lain for years in harbour, and many of them had crews chiefly made up of recently enrolled landsmen.
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