Example sentences of "[noun] have been [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 2 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 3 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 4 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 5 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 6 | Hunter is transferring from Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth , where he and his wife Rae have been custodians for the last 10 years . |
| 7 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 8 | ‘ Con Gallagher and Una have been lovers for about a year now . ’ |
| 9 | But the main items of most concern have been grants for surface cultivation ( ploughing and rotovation ) , drainage and fertilisers , whether paid under Development Plans or as one-off capital aids ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 10 | J. R. Clynes , the new Lord Privy Seal , wrote picturesquely of ‘ the strange turn in Fortune 's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk , Thomas the engine driver , Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand , to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations . |
| 11 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 12 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |