Example sentences of "be [verb] for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 2 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 3 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 4 | Your legs are wrecked for three or four days ’ |
| 5 | As mentioned elsewhere , child benefit has been frozen for three consecutive years . |
| 6 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 7 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 8 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 9 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 10 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |
| 11 | In our selection procedure we are looking for three main characteristics . |
| 12 | But to get why when er why we want to pay your commission and er it it 's because we are looking for three pieces of paper |
| 13 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 14 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 15 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 16 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 17 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 18 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |
| 19 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 20 | So reading lamp , toothbrush and three marks so we 're looking for three of them . |
| 21 | And we 're going for three hundred this year . |
| 22 | No er in the Methodist er ci circuits they move them on , they 're , they 're invited for three years . |
| 23 | Sometimes they 're gone for three or four days at a time . ’ |
| 24 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 25 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 26 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 27 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 28 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 29 | Well mine ai n't been used for three month . |
| 30 | The budget is due now , but it has been postponed for three months . |