Example sentences of "been dead for a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She knew the woman had been dead for a long time .
2 I think I have been dead for a long time now .
3 Ty Fach had been dead for a long time .
4 One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time .
5 I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me .
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