Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for about [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 2 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 4 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 5 | The smaller comprises 100,000 holders of ‘ traditional ’ with-profits policies which are invested totally in the participating fund ( none of which have been sold for about six years ) will be totally ring fenced , and both the investment profits and the ‘ infrastructure ’ profits — that is , the profits on the policy management — will remain the property of these policyholders . |
| 6 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 7 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 8 | We will be menstruating for about 30 years of our lives . |
| 9 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 10 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 11 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 12 | They have n't been reviewed for about fifteen years . |
| 13 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 14 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 15 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 16 | The house is abandoned when hunting is unproductive , the local fields are exhausted or the head of the village dies , so that in general one site is used for about six years . |
| 17 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 18 | AN ASSOCIATION for all former pupils and staff of St Hugh 's School , Birkenhead , has been established for about four years and its main function is an annual reunion mass held on or near the Feast of St Hugh of Lincoln . |
| 19 | I was using for about three years altogether . |