Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 3 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 4 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 5 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 6 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 7 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 8 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 9 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 10 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 11 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 12 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 13 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 14 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 15 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 16 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 17 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 18 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 19 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 20 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 21 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 22 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 23 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 24 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 25 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 26 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 27 | Instead of being demolished , the unused reactors will be locked up for 35 years . |
| 28 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 29 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 30 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |