Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 32 | It had been worse for ten days . |
| 33 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 34 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 35 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 36 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 37 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 38 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 39 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 40 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 41 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 42 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 43 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 44 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 45 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 46 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 47 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 48 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 49 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 50 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 51 | I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for forty years . |
| 52 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 53 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 54 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 55 | At ten to seven she had been ready for twenty minutes . |
| 56 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 57 | Today in Swindon , I saw 24 houses in a main street — they were attractive properties — all of which had been empty for 20 years . |
| 58 | Dad had been ill for fourteen years , on and off . |
| 59 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 60 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |