Example sentences of "[verb] be [pron] [noun] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 2 | It 's the second time this month , Mrs Jones has been robbed ; this tied cottage has been her home for 72 years . |
| 3 | Some of the Dutch civilian internees walked out of the camps which had been their prisons for three-and-a-half years , despite instructions to stay inside . |
| 4 | I 've been his servant for twenty years . |
| 5 | I 've been your friend for twenty years , and your doctor for fifteen years . |
| 6 | ‘ You , I understand , have been her guardian for two years ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |