Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] for [adj] years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 2 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 3 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 4 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 5 | The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years . |