Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [been] [adj] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 2 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 3 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 4 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 5 | Their advisers , Kleinwort Benson , a City bank , claimed that the Al Fayed family had been wealthy for generations . |
| 6 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |