Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 2 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 3 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 4 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 5 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 6 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 7 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 8 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |
| 9 | A charge of public exhibition of indecent acts or things had not been brought for 100 years , since a showman was convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of an indecent exhibition . |
| 10 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 11 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
| 12 | She explains patiently , again , that Rude Pravo has not been published for fifteen years . |
| 13 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 14 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 15 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 16 | Mademoiselle from Armentières … has n't been kissed for forty years … has n't been kissed … |
| 17 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 18 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 19 | The 12 cider apple trees in the orchard at Lower House Farm , Yarpole near Leominster have n't been picked for 5 years . |
| 20 | Rude Pravo has n't been published for fifteen years . ’ |
| 21 | I 've told you , Rude Pravo has n't been published for fifteen years . ’ |
| 22 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |