Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for five year " in BNC.

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1 Two Police houses have been empty for five years after officers moved out because of attacks .
2 She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce .
3 They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference .
4 The Czech Republic gives citizenship only to those who have been resident for five years and ( a point still under discussion ) who can show competence in Czech .
5 Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court .
6 Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) .
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