Example sentences of "[be] for [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice |
| 2 | So he 's been for two years . |
| 3 | Cos I have n't been for two years since I 've been to that one ! |
| 4 | Has been for six years . |
| 5 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 10 | Scums defence is as dodgy now as its been for 3–4 years . |
| 11 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 12 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 13 | I have n't been for three years . |
| 14 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The duration of local authority bonds is typically between one and five years , although most are for one year and are known as yearling bonds . |
| 19 | Duration : SHALL BE FOR TWO YEARS FROM THE SIGNING OF THIS AGREEMENT . |
| 20 | The appointment , which will be for two years in the first instance , has been made possible by the University of London 's Academic Initiative Scheme . |
| 21 | The post , which is at research officer level , will be for two years in the first instance , with the possibility of extension , and the salary will be at the appropriate point on the 1A scale ( £ –£18 165 per annum ) with USS . |
| 22 | The appointment will be for two years in the first instance . |
| 23 | The initial contract will probably be for two years replacing the current pilot service . |
| 24 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 25 | It is obvious from his writings that Battuta was most impressed by what was to be for eight years his adopted city . |
| 26 | Contracts will be for one year , beginning in Summer 1991 . |
| 27 | The appointment will be for one year . |
| 28 | Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting . |
| 29 | While the appointment will be for 1 year in the first instance . |
| 30 | The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance . |