Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 2 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 3 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 4 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 8 | We 've been married for seven years and , though I 'm only 31 , I 'm beginning to worry — has he changed his mind ? |
| 9 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 10 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 11 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 12 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 13 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 14 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 15 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 16 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 17 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 18 | Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated . |
| 19 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 20 | Synthetic brushes have been available for some time and seemed to be the ideal solution , but in the past brushes could be too soft to control well , or too hard to be fully responsive , limiting paint delivery and with little spring , performing as a poor cousin to natural hair and bristle . |
| 21 | The standard gauge ( SK840 ) and Chunky ( SK890 ) models have been available for some time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | William and Kate have been married for nine years and known each other for sixteen . |
| 24 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 25 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 26 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 27 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 28 | We have been married for eighteen years . |
| 29 | I am 30 , have been married for 10 years and have two children . |
| 30 | Jim and his wife Jan have been married for 18 years and the baby came as something of a surprise . |