Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 2 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 3 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 4 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 5 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 6 | She explains patiently , again , that Rude Pravo has not been published for fifteen years . |
| 7 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 8 | A London born terrorist has today been jailed for six months in Amsterdam on arms offences . |
| 9 | It has n't been touched for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 11 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 12 | Mademoiselle from Armentières … has n't been kissed for forty years … has n't been kissed … |
| 13 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 14 | Rude Pravo has n't been published for fifteen years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've told you , Rude Pravo has n't been published for fifteen years . ’ |
| 16 | A special meeting has therefore been called for two weeks time in order to press forward with ideas that could be implemented next season . |
| 17 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 18 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 19 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 20 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 21 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 22 | A heating expert said the boiler had not been serviced for twenty five years , and the flue was blocked . |
| 23 | Head circumference had not been recorded for 137 men , but this could be estimated from the two head diameters by using the regression equation derived from the 1042 records which included the circumference and both diameters . |
| 24 | In some places the books had not been touched for hundreds of years and could hardly be seen for dust . |
| 25 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 26 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 27 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 28 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 29 | A charge of public exhibition of indecent acts or things had not been brought for 100 years , since a showman was convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of an indecent exhibition . |
| 30 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |