Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] years and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 2 | ‘ I was unemployed for two years and I have just got a nice job . |
| 3 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 4 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 5 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 6 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 7 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 8 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 9 | they train in in Wrexham , in the midwifery she says they have n't trained any for two years and they 're not training any next year either ! |
| 10 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 11 | ‘ We have managed to keep relations very harmonious for many years and we will not let anything disrupt that harmony , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |