Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 32 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 33 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 34 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 35 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 36 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 37 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 38 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 39 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 40 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 41 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 42 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 43 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 44 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 45 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 46 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 47 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 48 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 49 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 50 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 51 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 52 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 53 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 54 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 55 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 56 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 57 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 58 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 59 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 60 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |