Example sentences of "and [noun] had been [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time .
2 The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer .
3 She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before .
4 Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes .
5 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 .
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