Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 3 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 4 | And the new operators , who 're all local businessmen , have been given 5 years on a new lease to make it a success . |
| 5 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 6 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 10 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 11 | My ma and da have been divorced ten years . |