Example sentences of "not been [vb pp] for [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 2 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 3 | IR systems have not been designed for end-users and require the skills of an intermediary . |
| 4 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 5 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 6 | All this in the most magnificent scenery , a national park where the natural forest has n't been logged for years and grazing sheep is prohibited so as not to upset the natural balance . |