Example sentences of "not been seen for [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years .
2 The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam .
3 The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years .
4 Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare .
5 Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare .
6 The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect .
7 Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days .
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