Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] for five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McNally : ‘ This investigation has been ongoing for five months . |
| 2 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 3 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 4 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 5 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 6 | Two Police houses have been empty for five years after officers moved out because of attacks . |
| 7 | The Czech Republic gives citizenship only to those who have been resident for five years and ( a point still under discussion ) who can show competence in Czech . |