Example sentences of "[verb] be for [num] year " in BNC.

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1 Has been for six years .
2 ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years .
3 The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years .
4 ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years .
5 George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them .
6 The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 .
7 In 1979 Mrs. Nancy O'Donnell also retired , having been for 23 years an indispensable part of School life — catering for numbers large or small , brewing tea and coffee , selling biscuits outside Room 18 , applying plasters to wounded knees or offering sympathy to wounded spirits .
8 The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising .
9 His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years .
10 You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years
11 " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted .
12 I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years
13 So he 's been for two years .
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