Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 4 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 5 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 6 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 7 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 8 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 9 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 10 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 11 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 12 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 13 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 14 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 15 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 16 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 17 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 18 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 19 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 20 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 21 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 22 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 23 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 24 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 25 | HARTLEPOOL United defender Keith Nobbs has been ruled out for four weeks . |
| 26 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 27 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 28 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 29 | At Builth in Central Wales , a complicated history has been worked out for one part of the Ordovician . |
| 30 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |