Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACT ! , developed by Contact Software , is both the US 's and the UK 's best selling contact software package , and PC and network variants tailored to the UK have been available for some time . |
| 2 | William and Kate have been married for nine years and known each other for sixteen . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 4 | Counillor and Mrs Woodhead have been married for 39 years . |
| 5 | Jim and his wife Jan have been married for 18 years and the baby came as something of a surprise . |
| 6 | Does the Minister recognise that those of us who are friends of Kenya have been concerned for some time that that country has been slipping from the flagship position of good and open government in Africa ? |