Example sentences of "be [adv] for [num] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | We 're going to be together for three whole years . ’ |
| 3 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
| 4 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 5 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 6 | The er the troops w have been there for twenty five years nearly . |
| 7 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 8 | And I was there for twenty five years . |