Example sentences of "[verb] been on [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 The Hercules transport aircraft , which has been on standby for the past two days will fly to the Croatian capital Zagreb .
2 The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years .
3 She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman .
4 Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere .
5 The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks .
6 The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made .
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