Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 3 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 4 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 5 | The council 's permission to the joint purchase was required because the woman had not been resident for six months . |
| 6 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 7 | Right , I think it 's always been time-tabled for two hours though |
| 8 | The single dog , who has probably been bored for many years , suddenly has a new playmate , who like himself , sleeps most of the time , but will enjoy a game for short periods . |
| 9 | Human interference has often been responsible for such introductions . |
| 10 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 11 | The military authorities in Baku moved against the Azerbaijan Popular Front on Jan. 24 , arresting 43 leading members and raiding the offices of the National Defence Council , a radical group allied to the Front which had allegedly been responsible for co-ordinating arms supplies to Azerbaijani militants . |