Example sentences of "lived [adv] for a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
2 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
3 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
4 | I 'm not an expert — I 've only lived there for a couple of years . ’ |
5 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |