Example sentences of "not [been] [verb] for [art] long " in BNC.

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1 There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time .
2 The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage .
3 Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh .
4 Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show .
5 So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time .
6 ‘ He had n't been beaten for a long time , and was very confident so I think defeat came as a bit of a shock .
7 it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time .
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