Example sentences of "had been [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 2 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 3 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 4 | At the Police Federation meeting held at the Marton Hotel , Middlesbrough , it was revealed this year 34 juveniles had been bailed for 108 offences in Hartlepool . |
| 5 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 6 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 7 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 8 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 9 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 10 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 11 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 12 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 13 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 14 | In the Dec. 28 elections held in Nagorny Karabakh for its self-proclaimed republican Supreme Soviet [ see p. 38657 ] , 11 of the 81 seats had been reserved for Azerbaijani deputies , but not taken up . |
| 15 | A national survey in 1979 found that whereas 22 per cent of boys from ‘ lower-manual ’ families had been convicted for criminal offences , only 4 per cent of boys from ‘ upper-middle ’ families had been . |
| 16 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 17 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 18 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 19 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 20 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 21 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 22 | After either Nicocheck or Nicotine Patch had been worn for 24 hours plasma nicotine ( 0.2 µg/l ) and cotinine ( 0.2 µg/l ) concentrations were unchanged , indicating no absorption . |
| 23 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 24 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 25 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 26 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 27 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 28 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 29 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 30 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |