Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 2 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 3 | Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 4 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 5 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 6 | There have been rumblings in recent years about the need for a more open Society but recent changes , typified by this open day , augur well for the future . |
| 7 | There have been suggestions in recent years that there 's a sub-group of patients with bladder cancer in whom there is a reduced likelihood of recurrence , and it may be possible in those patients to amend the follow-up protocol and omit the six and nine month check cystoscopies . |