Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun sg] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 2 | They 'll also want to know why you 're doing it , when there 's been constant obstruction for two years . |
| 3 | He had been Prime Minister for eight years and 241 days . |
| 4 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |