Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 2 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 3 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 4 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 8 | We 've been married for seven years and , though I 'm only 31 , I 'm beginning to worry — has he changed his mind ? |
| 9 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 10 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 11 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 12 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 13 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 14 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 15 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 16 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 17 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 18 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 19 | It is a good idea to tell children that all these have been domesticated for many hundreds of years in the service of man , for meat , milk , hide , skins , wool and eggs . |
| 20 | In a development which can also be seen in Zimbabwe , inflationary pressures have been greater for low-income urban households than for those with high incomes . |
| 21 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 22 | Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated . |
| 23 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 24 | Synthetic brushes have been available for some time and seemed to be the ideal solution , but in the past brushes could be too soft to control well , or too hard to be fully responsive , limiting paint delivery and with little spring , performing as a poor cousin to natural hair and bristle . |
| 25 | The standard gauge ( SK840 ) and Chunky ( SK890 ) models have been available for some time . |
| 26 | ACT ! , developed by Contact Software , is both the US 's and the UK 's best selling contact software package , and PC and network variants tailored to the UK have been available for some time . |
| 27 | Economists and economic historians have been interested in measuring poverty and wealth on a per capita basis for some time , and such data have been available for some of the advanced industrial countries for many years . |
| 28 | In 1981 it cut the link between earnings and unemployment benefits and uprated benefits in line with price rather than wage increases ( which have been higher for much of the decade ) . |
| 29 | William and Kate have been married for nine years and known each other for sixteen . |
| 30 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |