Example sentences of "been [adj] for six [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 2 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 3 | That 's why we have put in place the most varied , comprehensive programme ever to help people who have been unemployed for six months or more . ’ |
| 4 | The following table shows where a sample of school-leavers who had either been on a government Youth Opportunities Scheme ( YOPS ) or been unemployed for six weeks by the beginning of October 1978 had ended up by April 1979 . |
| 5 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 6 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 7 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 8 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 9 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 10 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |
| 11 | The council 's permission to the joint purchase was required because the woman had not been resident for six months . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been temporary for six months now . |
| 13 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |