Example sentences of "be [adj] for several years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 2 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 3 | The gallery has been empty for several years . |
| 4 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 5 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 6 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 7 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 8 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 9 | In 1990 , however , the illegal People 's United Democratic Front ( PUDEMO ) re-emerged after being dormant for several years [ see below ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 12 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |