Example sentences of "been [adj] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 2 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 3 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 4 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 5 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 6 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 7 | People in here have been brain-dead for fifteen years . ’ |
| 8 | she 's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever |
| 9 | The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning . |
| 10 | She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |
| 14 | This represents a major step forward in unlocking the commercial potential of our inner cities and of breathing new life into areas which may have been derelict for many years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for forty years . |
| 17 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 18 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 19 | Two Police houses have been empty for five years after officers moved out because of attacks . |
| 20 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 21 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 22 | Riddel 's Warehouse , Ann Street , ( 1867 ) : blighted by proximity to police station , has been empty for many years . |
| 23 | The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced . |
| 24 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 25 | The gallery has been empty for several years . |
| 26 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 27 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 28 | Today in Swindon , I saw 24 houses in a main street — they were attractive properties — all of which had been empty for 20 years . |
| 29 | The single dog , who has probably been bored for many years , suddenly has a new playmate , who like himself , sleeps most of the time , but will enjoy a game for short periods . |
| 30 | It is difficult to plan far enough ahead for a quarterly magazine , but we have been quarterly for two years now and still manage a Calendar in most editions so please , members and secretaries … help the editor to make your magazine an interesting and informative read for the Institute . |