Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rule 5 strikes a note familiar to all Sunday School teachers and Superintendents : ‘ Scholars who shall have been marked absent for twelve Sabbaths of the year shall not be entitled to be present at the Annual Festival Excursion . |
| 2 | Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours . |
| 3 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 4 | In the most recent presidential elections , in October 1990 , Houphouët-Boigny , who had previously been elected unopposed for six terms , was unsuccessfully challenged by an opposition party candidate and won a seventh term [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 5 | The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years . |