Example sentences of "years [pers pn] have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 2 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 3 | For years it has not been clear exactly what the Tate is . |
| 4 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 5 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |