Example sentences of "have been [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Two Police houses have been empty for five years after officers moved out because of attacks . |
| 32 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 33 | People in here have been brain-dead for fifteen years . ’ |
| 34 | Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel . |
| 35 | The Antis — as the huntsmen call the Saboteurs — have been active for 10 years . |
| 36 | Rents linked to the tenant 's turnover have been common for many years , particularly in mining leases . |
| 37 | Does the Minister recognise that those of us who are friends of Kenya have been concerned for some time that that country has been slipping from the flagship position of good and open government in Africa ? |
| 38 | This is particularly true for those with multiple symptoms who have been ill for many years . |
| 39 | All too often , we are called to see foals which have been ill for 24 hours or more and by that stage they can be very sick indeed . |
| 40 | The stables have been open for one year this November . |
| 41 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 42 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 43 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |
| 44 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 45 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 46 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 47 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 48 | 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 . ’ |
| 49 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 50 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 51 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |
| 52 | The Czech Republic gives citizenship only to those who have been resident for five years and ( a point still under discussion ) who can show competence in Czech . |
| 53 | ‘ You have been senseless for three days . |