Example sentences of "had been [adj] for several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 2 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 3 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 4 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 7 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 8 | It had been silent for several minutes . |