Example sentences of "have been [adv] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 3 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 4 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 5 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 6 | She has been there for two years . |
| 7 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 8 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 9 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 10 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 11 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 12 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 13 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 14 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 16 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 17 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 18 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 19 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 20 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 22 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 23 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 24 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 25 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 26 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 27 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |
| 28 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 29 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 30 | We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together . |