Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] for [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia .
2 Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years .
3 The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way .
4 Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son .
5 That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda .
6 Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years .
7 This usage has been current for 20 years .
8 But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing .
9 The elementary school has been open for twelve years offering the children of US service staff a throughly American education .
10 At the summit of Pico do Arieiro ( 1,818m ) there is a snack bar which has been open for many years , and a pousada recently opened .
11 She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years .
12 The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action
13 By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … .
14 The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils much closer together and this important aspect of our work has expanded considerably in recent times .
15 The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils closer together .
16 The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals .
17 And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer .
18 It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years .
19 Riddel 's Warehouse , Ann Street , ( 1867 ) : blighted by proximity to police station , has been empty for many years .
20 The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced .
21 The gallery has been empty for several years .
22 The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly .
23 District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years .
24 District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years .
25 There are , however , two longstanding situations on Southern Sandstone where payment of an admission fee has been customary for many years .
26 The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning .
27 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood .
28 My son has been dead for three years .
29 Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story .
30 He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection .
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