Example sentences of "they had been [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 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 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |