Example sentences of "has been [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
2 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
3 | Following the very successful session with at the January Q.T. Day a further programme has been arranged for 7 July at the ( the venue to be confirmed ) . |
4 | 10 IN-SERVICE DAYS Teaching the Elderly , this day has been arranged for 12 May — London venue to be notified later . |
5 | Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important . |
6 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
7 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
8 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
9 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
10 | Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years . |
11 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
12 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
13 | Ministers will continue to review every case where a life sentence prisoner has been detained for 10 years . |
14 | SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game . |
15 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
16 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
17 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
18 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
19 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |
20 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
21 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
22 | ‘ When a golf course has been played for 15 years , as The Belfry had , it begins to show certain areas where improvements can be made by fine-tuning . |
23 | Katie Englehart , the illiterate wife of an American farmer , has been healing for fifteen years . |
24 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
25 | Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah . |
26 | ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years . |
27 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
28 | A BANGOR man found in possession of cannabis worth a street value of £40,000 has been jailed for 18 months . |
29 | A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months . |
30 | A BUSINESSMAN has been jailed for 18 months for receiving thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods . |