Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ministers will continue to review every case where a life sentence prisoner has been detained for 10 years . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen . |
| 9 | A bird breeder has been jailed for four years after stolen rare birds were found wrapped in sacking in the boot of his car . |
| 10 | The magistrate who tried to kill his wife with a home-made gas chamber has been jailed for nine years . |
| 11 | An armed robber has been jailed for fifteen years after shots were fired at police during a chase after a post office raid . |
| 12 | An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson . |
| 13 | A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years . |
| 14 | A MERSEYSIDE man who stabbed his common-law wife in the face with a kitchen knife has been jailed for five years . |
| 15 | The IRA terrorist , James Canning , has been jailed for thirty years for conspiracy to cause explosions . |
| 16 | A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care . |
| 17 | A YOUNG Belfast man has been jailed for two years for the manslaughter of a Galway barman while on holiday in Salthill last summer . |
| 18 | A KIRKBY man caught with £300 worth of heroin has been jailed for two years . |
| 19 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 20 | Torrel James , 28 , a policeman in Port-of-Spain and a former Trinidad & Tobago Youth representative opening bowler , has been jailed for 15 years and received 20 lashes with the birch after being found guilty of the attempted murder of his girlfriend and her father in 1989 . |
| 21 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 22 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 23 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 24 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 25 | A second Briton , Paul Ride , 33 , has been jailed for seven years on a similar charge . |
| 26 | A man who carried out a series of indiscriminate attacks on people he thought were students has been jailed for seven years . |
| 27 | Paul Ride has been jailed for seven years for illegally entering the country . |
| 28 | A 37-YEAR-OLD ex-UDR man who admitted to Belfast Crown Court he kept guns and bomb-making equipment for a ‘ Doomsday situation ’ has been jailed for seven years . |
| 29 | Daily Telegraph We 've moved beyond grazing into gulping Al Rosenfeld , publisher of Frozen Food Age A Czech store manager has been jailed for 12 years for stealing-and eating-nearly £60,000 worth of food . |
| 30 | A MAN who blew up a motorist with a home-made bomb , has been jailed for 12 years . |