Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 2 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 3 | I 'm not very good with people and , even though Eric is my brother , I have n't seen him for over two years , since he went crazy . |
| 4 | She had n't seen him for almost five years and yet — less than twenty-four hours later — she 'd been not only happily returning his kisses , but also moaning with pleasure at the feel of his hands on her body . |
| 5 | Margaret she 's coming to this do we 're going to , I have n't seen her for about forty years . |
| 6 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 7 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 8 | Keep putting up , we 've had her for about two years have n't we ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 've used it for about three years . |
| 10 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 11 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 12 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 13 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 14 | You 've all heard that and I 've heard it for about thirty years now . |
| 15 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 16 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 17 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |