Example sentences of "had been [adv] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 2 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 4 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 5 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 6 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 7 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 8 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 10 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 11 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 12 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |