Example sentences of "had been [adj] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the debts sued for , all undefended , had been outstanding for three , four , five and six years , or even for a longer period . |
| 2 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 3 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 4 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 5 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 6 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 7 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 8 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 9 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 10 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 11 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 12 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 13 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 14 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 15 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 16 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 17 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 18 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 19 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 20 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 21 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 22 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 23 | For example , Field End House had been open for three years as a specialist unit for children with learning difficulties , and was designed to offer respite ‘ round the clock ’ care . |
| 24 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 25 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 26 | I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for forty years . |
| 27 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 28 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 29 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 30 | At ten to seven she had been ready for twenty minutes . |