Example sentences of "had [be] [adj] for [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 2 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 3 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 4 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 5 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 6 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 7 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 8 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 9 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 10 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 11 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 12 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 13 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 14 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 15 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 16 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 17 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 18 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 19 | I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for forty years . |
| 20 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 21 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 22 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 23 | Today in Swindon , I saw 24 houses in a main street — they were attractive properties — all of which had been empty for 20 years . |
| 24 | Dad had been ill for fourteen years , on and off . |
| 25 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 26 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 27 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 28 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 29 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 30 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |