Example sentences of "been [verb] for [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 2 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 3 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 4 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 5 | has been re-appointed for a further year as part-time member of AEA Board . |
| 6 | There has been a substantial advance in real-terms pay under our Administration , and this year the pay award that has been made for the current year is increasing the teachers ' pay bill overall by 11.3 per cent . |
| 7 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 8 | The ban on commercial whaling has been upheld for a further year — prompting threats from Iceland and Norway to leave the International Whaling Commission . |
| 9 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 14 | It has been rumoured for the past year that there are moves afoot to remove Cork from the list of Tarmac championship rounds . |
| 15 | At the time of the survey there was no drama specialist on the staff , although a drama/English teacher had been appointed for the next year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Congress approved on Oct. 26 a defence budget for fiscal year 1991 of $288,300 million , $16,700 million less than had been authorized for the previous year [ see p. 37409 ] . |
| 18 | Around £250,000 has been earmarked for the three year project by Kent County Council in conjunction with the Countryside Commission . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | House moves fell from a peak of 2.3m in 1989 to only 1m last year , but a recovery to 1.3m has been predicted for the current year . |
| 24 | 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 . |