Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | has been re-appointed for a further year as part-time member of AEA Board . |
| 2 | The ban on commercial whaling has been upheld for a further year — prompting threats from Iceland and Norway to leave the International Whaling Commission . |
| 3 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 4 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 5 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 7 | A SUCCESSFUL after-care scheme run for elderly people at Middlesbrough General Hospital has been extended for a further year , it was announced last night . |
| 8 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 9 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 10 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 11 | The in-service kind of erm activity is of course reflected in our , many of our courses , not merely in short courses , but in the fact that we run erm Masters courses , erm M As in Education of several kinds , and students in those courses are mainly teachers who have been released for a whole year to come and do a full-time course . |