Example sentences of "had been dead for [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it .
2 After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents .
3 Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before .
4 Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years .
5 Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks .
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