Example sentences of "had been dead for [noun] " 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 . |