Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [noun] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 2 | The Austrian Communist Party ( Kommunistische Partei Österreichs — KPÖ ) at its congress in Vienna on Jan. 20-21 , 1990 , accepted the decision of Franz Muhri , who had been chair for 25 years , not to stand for re-election . |
| 3 | But if you wanted to take your revenge and kill me , because of some ancient grudge against somebody who 's been dust for 200 years , then why did n't you just do it last night at my house ? |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 5 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 6 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 7 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 8 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 9 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 10 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 11 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 12 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 13 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |