Example sentences of "has been [vb pp] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 32 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 33 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 34 | A second Briton , Paul Ride , 33 , has been jailed for seven years on a similar charge . |
| 35 | A man who carried out a series of indiscriminate attacks on people he thought were students has been jailed for seven years . |
| 36 | Paul Ride has been jailed for seven years for illegally entering the country . |
| 37 | A 37-YEAR-OLD ex-UDR man who admitted to Belfast Crown Court he kept guns and bomb-making equipment for a ‘ Doomsday situation ’ has been jailed for seven years . |
| 38 | Daily Telegraph We 've moved beyond grazing into gulping Al Rosenfeld , publisher of Frozen Food Age A Czech store manager has been jailed for 12 years for stealing-and eating-nearly £60,000 worth of food . |
| 39 | A MAN who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb , has been jailed for 12 years . |
| 40 | A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years . |
| 41 | Michael Wainwright , 42 , from Sowerby Bridge , West Yorks. , has been jailed for ten years for entering Iraq . |
| 42 | The structure and organization of public services do not , at present , foster service developments which match the King 's Fund recommendations , and the need for an overhaul in the way services are organized has been recognized for some years . |
| 43 | If he can prove that it has been exercised for 20 years before the date of an action , it will be presumed that it has existed from ’ time immemorial ’ . |
| 44 | In addition to that , the common law will presume that there is a ’ lost modern grant ’ if the right has been exercised for 20 years . |
| 45 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 46 | The gall bladder epithelium has been considered for many years to be an excellent model for the study of the physiological properties of epithelial cells and in particular ion transport . |
| 47 | THE protection order on the River Tay , which prohibits fishing for freshwater species without official permits , has been continued for three years by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 48 | Where the right has been enjoyed for 40 years , it is to be considered ’ absolute and indefeasible ’ . |
| 49 | The team doctor , Daniel Rodriguez , gets a life ban for submitting a fraudulent medical certificate detailing Rojas 's ‘ injury ’ ; and Fernando Astengo , Chile 's vice-captain who led the players off the pitch in the Maracana , has been suspended for five years . |
| 50 | ONE OF the legendary ‘ properties ’ , Fleetway 's comic-strip psycho-cop has been optioned for eight years . |
| 51 | Boarding out ( or fostering ) has been practised for many years and the Curtis Committee on the care of children strongly urged that this should be the first choice in finding substitute homes . |
| 52 | The possibility of a connection between the disappearance of coronae and the onset of massive winds has been discussed for many years . |
| 53 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 54 | ‘ Gran Reserva ’ indicates it has been aged for seven years . |
| 55 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 56 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 57 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 58 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 59 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 60 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |