John and I _____ friends for eight years. We first got to know each other at a Christmas party. But we ____ each other a couple of times before that.
The____________house smells as if it hasn't been lived in for years.
The old man, ____________abroad for twenty years, is on the way back to his motherland.
A man is being questioned in relation to the ________ murder last night.
It's ten years since the scientist _______on his life's work of discovering the valuable chemical.
-- You haven't lost the ticket, have you? -- _________. I know it's not easy to get another one at the moment.