Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia .
2 Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son .
3 Mr McNally : ‘ This investigation has been ongoing for five months .
4 This usage has been current for 20 years .
5 The currency has been stable for six months .
6 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 .
7 In case police behaviour changes as new procedures and rules become familiar , then whole research exercise will be repeated again after the Act has been operational for eighteen months ( summer 1987 ) .
8 The elementary school has been open for twelve years offering the children of US service staff a throughly American education .
9 He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘
10 She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years .
11 Haim Scheider , an economist who left Lithuania 10 years ago , has been unemployed for 18 months , but still has no regrets .
12 By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … .
13 The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals .
14 And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer .
15 It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years .
16 District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years .
17 District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years .
18 My son has been dead for three years .
19 Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind .
20 But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you
21 Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan .
22 Just a few months ago walking like this would have been impossible for 12 year old Ashley Smith .
23 Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough .
24 Queen Jane ( the former Lady Jane Grey ) lost the throne on 19 July 1553 — having been sovereign for twelve days — to be succeeded by Mary whose first regnal year was dated from that day , but her second regnal year began on 6 July 1554 , thus ignoring the ‘ reign ’ of Jane .
25 The idea bears some analogy to the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community which brought these industries under an international authority to defuse the conflict of interest between Germany and France which was held to have been responsible for two world wars .
26 The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory .
27 When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark .
28 Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years .
29 If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks .
30 She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital .
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