Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been for [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years
2 He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months .
3 " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted .
4 Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago .
5 The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years .
6 ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years .
7 The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy .
8 His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years .
9 I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years
10 So he 's been for two years .
11 The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising .
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