Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 2 | But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her |
| 3 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 4 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 5 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
| 6 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |
| 7 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 8 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 9 | We 've been pally for years Sadie . |
| 10 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 11 | Been there for years . |
| 12 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 13 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 14 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 15 | that have been there for years have n't they ? |
| 16 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 17 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 18 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 19 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 20 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 21 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |