Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [adj] for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 2 | Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son . |
| 3 | This usage has been current for 20 years . |
| 4 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |
| 5 | The elementary school has been open for twelve years offering the children of US service staff a throughly American education . |
| 6 | She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years . |
| 7 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |
| 8 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 9 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 10 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 11 | District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years . |
| 12 | District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years . |
| 13 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 14 | Megan 's been married for 18 years and still loves her husband , but resents his meanness . |
| 15 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 16 | she 's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever |