Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [vb pp] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 2 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 3 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 4 | Charlemagne , a little book which has been written for 12 to 16 year olds ( but suitable for all ages ) would make an ideal present . |
| 5 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 6 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 7 | In all they 've questioned twelve present and former members of staff from the school , which has been closed for four months . |
| 8 | There is a carers group , DACMI , which has been established for two years now , close to where you live . |
| 9 | The top coin shows Henry VII ( 1485-1509 ) ; it is the same generic royal image which had been used for two centuries , as can be seen from the close similarity of the image used by Edward I ( compare fig. 3 ) . |
| 10 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 11 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |
| 12 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | One of the rebels , vice-chairman Ronnie Teese , 56 , who has been banned for 12 months , said the club was ‘ terrified of the can of worms they might find ’ . |
| 15 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 16 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 17 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 18 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 19 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 20 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 21 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 22 | She had been widowed for five months , very nearly . |
| 23 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 24 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 25 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |
| 26 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 27 | Dai Qing , a journalist on the intellectual newspaper Guangming Ribao who had been imprisoned for 10 months after the 1989 crackdown , and Hou Xiaotian , wife of the imprisoned dissident Wang Juntao , were detained by police for four and two days respectively after being contacted by US embassy officials to arrange a meeting during the visit . |
| 28 | While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . , |
| 29 | Amongst the delegates were three British senior tutors , who have been seconded for two years to the EBI financed by the ODA , to assist with the setting up of tuition and training services — Geoff Sales , Phil Brear and Pal Mangla . |
| 30 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |