Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [noun pl] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 2 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 3 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 4 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 5 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 6 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 7 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 8 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |
| 9 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |