Example sentences of "[verb] been dead for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | My son has been dead for three years . |
2 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
3 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
4 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
5 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
6 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
7 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
8 | Her mother had been dead for twenty years . |
9 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |