Example sentences of "have been [verb] for [num] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 3 | The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks . |
| 4 | STEVE WILLIAMS , the 34-year-old former England midfield player , has been suspended for two weeks without pay and stripped of his title as assistant manager following a bust-up with manager Alan Ball at Second Division Exeter City . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 8 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 9 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 10 | The pub has been closed for eight weeks but tenant Tracy Willcox said the renovation was a vast improvement . |
| 11 | It was the third time Hillman has been sent off in his career and having been suspended for 20 weeks for his last offence , can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 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 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 16 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 17 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |