Example sentences of "had [be] [noun] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 2 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 3 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |
| 4 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 5 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 6 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |
| 7 | The Austrian Communist Party ( Kommunistische Partei Österreichs — KPÖ ) at its congress in Vienna on Jan. 20-21 , 1990 , accepted the decision of Franz Muhri , who had been chair for 25 years , not to stand for re-election . |
| 8 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |