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Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] year " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both
2	Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot .
3	‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something .
4	But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her
5	Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years .
6	It seems as though we have been away for years .
7	I do n't know I have n't been up for years .
8	I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died .
9	Oh , first time I 've been out in years on a Friday .
10	I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages .
11	I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me .
12	No one 's been here for years . ’
13	If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ?
14	His father has n't been here for years .
15	The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant .
16	Some of the titles currently optioned have been around for years , but the prospects are tantalising .
17	Another group , the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen Council , has been around for years without promising amenities like that ; one of Bushwick 's biggest employers , it has stuck to various welfare and housing services .
18	The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years .
19	Doc Martens BOOTS have been around for years .
20	He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was .
21	We 've been pally for years Sadie .
22	They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at .
23	They are there ; they have been there for years .
24	Been there for years .
25	‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’
26	It , too , must have been there for years .
27	Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years .
28	that have been there for years have n't they ?
29	No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding .
30	There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all .