Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year !
2 The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years .
3 My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four .
4 Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine .
5 You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years
6 The er the troops w have been there for twenty five years nearly .
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