Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] for [adj] year " 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 | He shall be assessed on the whole amount or value of that benefit except in so far as is shown that the benefit derives directly or indirectly from income on which he has already been charged to tax for that year or a previous year of assessment . |
| 5 | In his view it was disgusting that the union had been forced to battle for four years to win the day . |
| 6 | A forty year old Glasgow widower who admitted sex offences against children has been sent to jail for five years . |
| 7 | 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 . |