Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be friends 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 Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know .
3 After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them …
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 They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways .
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