Example sentences of "been [verb] for ten year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 2 | Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years . |
| 3 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 5 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 6 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 7 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 8 | If its august it must be Fairport … for these fifty Americans … some of whom having been coming for ten years … their annual pilgrimage to Oxfordshire for the Fairport Convention festival starts with a meeting with the folk rock band in a local pub . |
| 9 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 10 | Michael Wainwright , 42 , from Sowerby Bridge , West Yorks. , has been jailed for ten years for entering Iraq . |
| 11 | Three members of a Colombian drugs cartel who used Oxford language schools as a cover have each been jailed for ten years . |