Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] for [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 2 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 3 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 4 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 5 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 6 | An association between hypertension and diabetes has been suspected for over 70 years . |
| 7 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 8 | Because that 's the old term that 's been used for however many years , and it 's still used by industry . |
| 9 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 10 | The smaller comprises 100,000 holders of ‘ traditional ’ with-profits policies which are invested totally in the participating fund ( none of which have been sold for about six years ) will be totally ring fenced , and both the investment profits and the ‘ infrastructure ’ profits — that is , the profits on the policy management — will remain the property of these policyholders . |
| 11 | But I I did take part in it when I was a a boy in school , and that 's a that 's a fair while ago , now right enough , but er er I used to attend the er Well a primary school , I went to the small Grimness school , in the north end of South Ronaldsay , which has now been closed for over twenty years . |
| 12 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 13 | Albert Pacey made his announcement at the headquarters in Cheltenham where he 's been based for nearly six years . |
| 14 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 15 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 16 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 17 | In February the King released 313 political prisoners , including prisoners of conscience Jogen Gazmere and Sushil Pokhrel , who had been detained for over two years without trial . |
| 18 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 19 | That has n't been touched for over fifteen years . ’ |
| 20 | This practice has been followed for over 300 years at High Bridge End , St. John 's in the Vale , and until recently at Adamthwaite in the Howgills , and it is referred to in Langdale also . |
| 21 | Just because the two have been associated for over 2,000 years , there 's no reason to believe in such a link . |
| 22 | A MAN who claims his mail has not been delivered for over two years has received an apology from the Post Office after the discovery of over 400 letters at the home of a former postman . |
| 23 | Has been worked for over 100 years but currently under redevelopment and extension with a modernised shaft . |
| 24 | This fish has now been imported for over two years and when first appeared its price was in the second-mortgage league , but now has dropped considerably and can be picked up for between £30–£50 . |
| 25 | Compost-making on a farm scale is yet uncommon in Britain ( it has been practised for over 4,000 years in China ) as it involves a very careful balance and mixing of ingredients , control of ventilation and moisture , and the extra work of at least one turning . |
| 26 | They have n't been reviewed for about fifteen years . |
| 27 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 28 | Bruce and Pat Cottrill , of Colwyn Bay , are furious that killer Frederic Blancke has been jailed for only 15 years , which means he could be free before the end of the century . |
| 29 | Professor Davies , Dr S G Wheatcroft and others have been engaged for over ten years in a study of Soviet industrialisation , with special reference to the crucial years 1926-1937 in which the foundations of the present economic system were established . |
| 30 | Digfar was run almost entirely by local Somali staff — 25 doctors and nearly 100 nurses — who had not been paid for over two years . |