Example sentences of "they have been [adj] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
2 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
3 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
4 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
5 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
6 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
7 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
8 | They have been vacant for three months . |
9 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
10 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
11 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |