Example sentences of "[been] [art] [noun] [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sixty years old and had been the parish priest for over thirty years . |
| 2 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
| 3 | She has now been a ticket collector for more than 15 years and has won a radio and a newspaper award for her personality and popularity with passengers . |
| 4 | The Stroud district of Gloucestershire was well developed ‘ Stroudwaters ’ having been a household name for nearly a century . |
| 5 | Alexanders , the jewellers , have been a Rolex concessionaire for over forty years now enabling us to offer you a service that we firmly believe is second to none . |
| 6 | I have been a machine knitter for about 20 years and I still remember those early garments which I expected my family to wear . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been a consumer researcher for so long that I am Consumer Correspondent always on the look-out for a new subject to investigate . ’ |