Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 2 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 3 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 4 | Instead of being demolished , the unused reactors will be locked up for 35 years . |
| 5 | Tory MPs protested the measures may be held up for two years because of delays on the Bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 6 | It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment . |
| 7 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 8 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 9 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 10 | If these payments are kept up for five years and are used to buy a home , the Ministry of Defence will add £1 tax-free for every £3 saved . |
| 11 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 12 | Officials from the HSE told MPs that their work on implementing the recommendation of Britain 's advisory committee on asbestos was held up for two years while they worked on the EEC plan . |