Example sentences of "been [verb] for three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Voluntary Project administrator Roy Montgomery is convinced the scheme , which has been running for three months , is a major success — and a lifeline for local young people . |
| 32 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 33 | He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years . |
| 34 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 35 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 36 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 39 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 40 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 41 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 42 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 43 | A man has been jailed for three months for shooting dead a pair of swans . |
| 44 | FORMER Liverpool City Council trade unionist Tony Gavin , who stole welfare funds , has been jailed for three months . |
| 45 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 46 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 47 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 48 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 49 | SIX members of a North-East car theft gang have each been jailed for three years after an 18-month undercover police operation . |
| 50 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 51 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 52 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 53 | The makeshift team of veteran professionals and apprentices have n't been paid for three months and the club must find a quarter of a million pounds to guarantee survival . |
| 54 | The players have n't been paid for three months , so who in their right mind wants to rescue them ? |
| 55 | A paid-up policy is only available if premiums have been paid for three years and the reduced sum is £400 or more . |
| 56 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 57 | and there 's more news today on the incident in which scrum-half Hannaford fractured his eye socket … the Saracens number eight Barry Crawley who threw the punch in the league game last week has been suspended for three weeks … |
| 58 | The presenters have been suspended for three months . |
| 59 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 60 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |