Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [noun pl] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 2 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 3 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 4 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 5 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |