Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 2 | Specimens have been known to live for 10 years and more . |
| 3 | Size : Growing to about 8″ : in length , this Chaetodon should be kept in a large aquarium , although it is very hardy and , under ideal conditions , specimens have been known to live for several years . |
| 4 | In his view it was disgusting that the union had been forced to battle for four years to win the day . |
| 5 | A forty year old Glasgow widower who admitted sex offences against children has been sent to jail for five years . |
| 6 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |