Example sentences of "not been [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
2 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
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 | Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill . |
5 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
6 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |
7 | And because Barlaston had ceased to function as a house in the 1930s , and had not been modernized for many years before that , it was in a remarkably unaltered state and thus an important archaeological document . |
8 | A charge of public exhibition of indecent acts or things had not been brought for 100 years , since a showman was convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of an indecent exhibition . |
9 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
10 | Mrs Robson had contacted the Echo a few weeks ago to say that her brother 's cast-iron bath was 40 years old and had not been used for 12 years . |
11 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
12 | Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years . |
13 | She explains patiently , again , that Rude Pravo has not been published for fifteen years . |