Example sentences of "be married for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Megan 's been married for 18 years and still loves her husband , but resents his meanness . |
| 2 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 3 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 4 | I have been married for nearly twenty-five years to a very nice kind Englishman . |
| 5 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 6 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 7 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 8 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 9 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 10 | I am 30 , have been married for 10 years and have two children . |
| 11 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 12 | She was an Irish Catholic woman of twenty-eight and had been married for nearly two years . |
| 13 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've known Eric since I was 20 and we have been married for nearly six years . |
| 15 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 16 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 17 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 18 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 19 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 20 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 21 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 22 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 23 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 24 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 25 | Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son . |
| 26 | I been married for 11 months and my husband works away during the week so we only see each other at weekends . |
| 27 | William and Kate have been married for nine years and known each other for sixteen . |
| 28 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 29 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 30 | I had been married for seven hours . |