Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 3 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 4 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 5 | The gallery has been empty for several years . |
| 6 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 7 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 8 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 9 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 10 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 12 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 13 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 14 | Suppose the brochure mentions another hotel , stating that it has been open for several seasons and that it closes every year from November to March . |
| 15 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 16 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 17 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 18 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 19 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 20 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 21 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 22 | It had been silent for several minutes . |