Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " 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 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 5 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 8 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In Kent v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner , a blanket ban had been imposed for 28 days in the light of the Brixton disorders of 10–13 April , and disorder at several Bank Holiday fairs . |
| 11 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 12 | Rotation was continued until the gall bladder was clear on fluoroscopy and no impacts had been felt for five minutes . |
| 13 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 14 | A state of emergency , which already existed over two-thirds of the country ( representing more than 50 per cent of the population ) , had been reimposed for 30 days in the capital Lima on March 23 in an effort to protect candidates , following the murder of a FREDEMO congressional candidate , Julio Gálvez . |
| 15 | Well over 100 applications had been received for 35 places on a new course starting this year . |
| 16 | This second tranche of the SAF had been withheld for six months until Sri Lanka had agreed to the implementation of a policy framework paper outlining the conditions for the government 's stabilization programme . |
| 17 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 18 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 19 | Mr Espin reported that bookings had been made for 22 adults and 26 children . |
| 20 | had been employed for 28 years on barley intake . |
| 21 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 22 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 23 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 24 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 25 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
| 26 | The treaty had been renewed for 20 years in 1974 but the Yemeni government had indicated that it would oppose renewal in 1994 . |
| 27 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |
| 28 | The existence of the tape , had been known for two-and-a-half years , as copies were sent anonymously to newspapers . |
| 29 | AFTER A Fortnight in Hobart , where Eliza had been stationed for 11 months , Gould and his retinue packed everything , including Eliza 's enumerable drawings , and left for Sydney . |
| 30 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |