Example sentences of "has [been] dead for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the novel Jaromil has forsworn his artist friend , who is under the ban of the regime and compelled to paint by candlelight : ‘ The whole world of his pictures has been dead for years . |
| 2 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 3 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 4 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 5 | My son has been dead for three years . |