Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [num] years " in BNC.

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1 I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns .
2 She had been paralysed for thirty years .
3 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 .
4 By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old .
5 Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years .
6 I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school .
7 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 .
8 ‘ No new water supplies have been developed in 20 years . ’
9 After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries .
10 These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years .
11 Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland .
12 The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision .
13 The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative .
14 In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust .
15 Where the right has been enjoyed for 40 years , it is to be considered ’ absolute and indefeasible ’ .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community .
18 The 12 cider apple trees in the orchard at Lower House Farm , Yarpole near Leominster have n't been picked for 5 years .
19 However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years .
20 He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident .
21 As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good .
22 Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends .
23 The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop .
24 Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day .
25 ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years .
26 ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right .
27 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 .
28 The two areas have been twinned for 35 years .
29 ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse .
30 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 . ’
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