Example sentences of "been [verb] for [adj] [num] year " in BNC.
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1 | His judgment was almost impeccable , and on the ground where he had been caught for 99 five years earlier ( by Gower , the only current survivor from that England side ) , he now stood tall among the innings ruins . |
2 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
3 | Four people , having served their community , have been confined for some seven years and now find that their right of appeal is being hindered by some legal technicality or misinterpretation of the law . |
4 | The whale hunters from the Lofoten Islands , the heart of Norway 's whaling industry , are eager to put their point of view , saying that whales have been hunted for ten thousand years and are an integral part of the local diet . |
5 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
6 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
7 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
8 | There is no obvious mountain pass or trail leading to the immediate area of the Castle , since Felsbrockenberg has been deserted for some 80 years . |
9 | The emergency import restriction on cultural artifacts from El Salvador has been extended for another three years . |
10 | A heating expert said the boiler had not been serviced for twenty five years , and the flue was blocked . |
11 | Two men who ran Britain 's biggest ecstasy smuggling gang have each been jailed for twenty four years at Maidstone Crown Court . |
12 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
13 | Until the launch of the Independent in 1986 , no new national quality daily newspaper had been launched for 1 13 years . |