Example sentences of "married for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 2 | But yes , as it happens , Bernard and I were happily married for fifteen years , in the face of all likelihood , and against the prognostications of our friends . |
| 3 | They do n't want to risk a break-up — perhaps for the sake of the children , or because it suits them to be married for other reasons . |
| 4 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 5 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 6 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 9 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 10 | Richard Baxter was twenty four years older than Margaret , and although they had no children , they were very happily married for nineteen years . |
| 11 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 12 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 13 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 14 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 15 | I been married for 11 months and my husband works away during the week so we only see each other at weekends . |
| 16 | Ros , a 34-year-old accountant , married for 11 years , is convinced that her greatest asset is her femininity . |
| 17 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 18 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 19 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 20 | The data on the proportion infecund are based on self-reported infecundity ( i.e. the female respondent stated that she is infecund ) and on behavioural infecundity that was indicated if a woman who was continuously married for five years prior to the survey and did not use contraception had no birth during that interval . |
| 21 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 22 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 23 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 24 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 25 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 26 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 27 | Megan 's been married for 18 years and still loves her husband , but resents his meanness . |
| 28 | Jim and his wife Jan have been married for 18 years and the baby came as something of a surprise . |
| 29 | He was married for 18 months to former model Susie Miller but they separated in 1976 . |
| 30 | William and Kate have been married for nine years and known each other for sixteen . |