Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 She had been paralysed for thirty years .
2 Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years .
3 The structure and organization of public services do not , at present , foster service developments which match the King 's Fund recommendations , and the need for an overhaul in the way services are organized has been recognized for some years .
4 Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill .
5 In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance .
6 This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change .
7 On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it .
8 The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision .
9 But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years .
10 Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on .
11 Where the right has been enjoyed for 40 years , it is to be considered ’ absolute and indefeasible ’ .
12 ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia .
13 The 12 cider apple trees in the orchard at Lower House Farm , Yarpole near Leominster have n't been picked for 5 years .
14 The gall bladder epithelium has been considered for many years to be an excellent model for the study of the physiological properties of epithelial cells and in particular ion transport .
15 Is the Minister aware that the proposals for the expansion and development of the Dalzell works have been pursued for many years more consistently and vigorously by the Labour party than by any other party ?
16 Some companies , such as Amway , manufacturers of the world 's first biodegradable household cleaning product , LOC ( Liquid Organic Cleaner ) , have been committed for many years to environmentally sound principles in the formulation , manufacture , packaging and distribution of their products .
17 It was rumoured that the ‘ train' actually came into Hallington Station and blew off steam ( even though the track had been lifted for some years ) .
18 they 've been done for many years
19 ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right .
20 Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years .
21 The two areas have been twinned for 35 years .
22 Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’
23 Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 .
24 She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long .
25 ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone .
26 A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years .
27 He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years .
28 ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family .
29 She and Caan had been separated for three years .
30 The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years .
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