Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years .
2 Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years .
3 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 .
4 Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill .
5 The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision .
6 It 's not been fed for two years has it , so
7 And because Barlaston had ceased to function as a house in the 1930s , and had not been modernized for many years before that , it was in a remarkably unaltered state and thus an important archaeological document .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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 At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years .
12 Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years .
13 She explains patiently , again , that Rude Pravo has not been published for fifteen years .
14 Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’
15 Mademoiselle from Armentières … has n't been kissed for forty years … has n't been kissed …
16 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 .
17 On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it .
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 . ’
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