Example sentences of "been [verb] for [det] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four people , having served their community , have been confined for some seven years and now find that their right of appeal is being hindered by some legal technicality or misinterpretation of the law . |
| 2 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 3 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 4 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 5 | There is no obvious mountain pass or trail leading to the immediate area of the Castle , since Felsbrockenberg has been deserted for some 80 years . |
| 6 | The emergency import restriction on cultural artifacts from El Salvador has been extended for another three years . |
| 7 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |