Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] be for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |
| 2 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 3 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 4 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 5 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |