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

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1 Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that .
2 That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution .
3 A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon .
4 Following the very successful session with at the January Q.T. Day a further programme has been arranged for 7 July at the ( the venue to be confirmed ) .
5 10 IN-SERVICE DAYS Teaching the Elderly , this day has been arranged for 12 May — London venue to be notified later .
6 Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important .
7 The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million .
8 The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million .
9 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 .
10 Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish .
11 Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years .
12 Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) .
13 Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years .
14 Ministers will continue to review every case where a life sentence prisoner has been detained for 10 years .
15 SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game .
16 The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race .
17 He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked .
18 Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him .
19 Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’
20 Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes .
21 Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration .
22 Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) .
23 ‘ When a golf course has been played for 15 years , as The Belfry had , it begins to show certain areas where improvements can be made by fine-tuning .
24 Katie Englehart , the illiterate wife of an American farmer , has been healing for fifteen years .
25 Faith also has been flying for twenty years .
26 Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah .
27 ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years .
28 Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts .
29 A BANGOR man found in possession of cannabis worth a street value of £40,000 has been jailed for 18 months .
30 A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months .
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