Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] there for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 2 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 3 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 4 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 6 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 7 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 8 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |