Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 2 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 3 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 4 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 5 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 8 | they 've been done for many years |
| 9 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 10 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 11 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 12 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 13 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 14 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 15 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 16 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 17 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
| 18 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 20 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 21 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 22 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 23 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 24 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 25 | The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years . |
| 26 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 27 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 28 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 29 | The two areas have been twinned for 35 years . |
| 30 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |