Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for nearly [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 2 | Albert Pacey made his announcement at the headquarters in Cheltenham where he 's been based for nearly six years . |
| 3 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 4 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 5 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |