Example sentences of "[verb] been for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | Has been for six years . |
| 3 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 4 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
| 6 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 7 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 8 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 10 | In 1979 Mrs. Nancy O'Donnell also retired , having been for 23 years an indispensable part of School life — catering for numbers large or small , brewing tea and coffee , selling biscuits outside Room 18 , applying plasters to wounded knees or offering sympathy to wounded spirits . |
| 11 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 12 | Of the temporary jobs concerned , nearly three quarters ( 70 per cent ) had been for six months or less ( Stern , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |
| 14 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 15 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 16 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 17 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 18 | After all , the Elphbergs are the royal family of Ruritania , and have been for hundreds of years . |
| 19 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 20 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 21 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |
| 22 | So he 's been for two years . |