Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] been for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 2 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 7 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |