Example sentences of "been [adj] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 2 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 3 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 5 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 6 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
| 7 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 8 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , a draft of the report of group I — on the effects of acid rain on the environment — has been ready for more than a year . |
| 10 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |