5.35 situations that still exist

If you want to talk about an activity or situation that started at some time in the past, continued, and is still happening now, you use the present perfect or the present perfect continuous.

• All my adult life I have waited for the emergence of a strong centre party.
• She's always felt that films should be entertaining.
• National productivity has been declining.
• Caroline Johnstone is 26 and has been cooking for a bank for five years.