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[hiromichi]

What　is　omitted　in　”　has　for　much　of　the　past　eight　yr￥ears”　?


Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former
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Hiromichi

[CP]

It means:

Karzai gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and he has gotten such payments for much of the past eight years.

It's an example of ellipsis, in which something is left out, and you have to fill in the parallel information to get the full understanding.
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[hiromichi]

CP:
Thank you very much.
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Hiromichi