Example sentences of "[been] married for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Megan 's been married for 18 years and still loves her husband , but resents his meanness . |
| 2 | Jim and his wife Jan have been married for 18 years and the baby came as something of a surprise . |
| 3 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 4 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 5 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 6 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 7 | I been married for 11 months and my husband works away during the week so we only see each other at weekends . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 10 | I am 30 , have been married for 10 years and have two children . |
| 11 | William and Kate have been married for nine years and known each other for sixteen . |
| 12 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 13 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 14 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 15 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 16 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 17 | We have been married for eighteen years . |
| 18 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 19 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 20 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 21 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 22 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 23 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 24 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 25 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 26 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 27 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 28 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 29 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 30 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |