Example sentences of "have been [verb] for [num] year " in BNC.
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1 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
6 | Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Ministers will continue to review every case where a life sentence prisoner has been detained for 10 years . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
16 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | Katie Englehart , the illiterate wife of an American farmer , has been healing for fifteen years . |
19 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years . |
22 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
23 | A 20-YEAR-OLD Belfast man has been jailed for eight years for his part in an armed robbery of more than £6,000 from an Ulster Bank . |
24 | Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen . |
25 | A bird breeder has been jailed for four years after stolen rare birds were found wrapped in sacking in the boot of his car . |
26 | The magistrate who tried to kill his wife with a home-made gas chamber has been jailed for nine years . |
27 | An armed robber has been jailed for fifteen years after shots were fired at police during a chase after a post office raid . |
28 | An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson . |
29 | A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years . |
30 | A MERSEYSIDE man who stabbed his common-law wife in the face with a kitchen knife has been jailed for five years . |