Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] for week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort . |
| 2 | Other Western diplomats , local journalists and most political analysts claimed , however , that the coup had been rumoured for weeks and had a level of sophistication far greater than that expected from mostly illiterate soldiers in the ranks . |
| 3 | His flat had been closed for weeks and the fridge was empty . |
| 4 | The Lakeland fells had been baked for weeks under cloudless skies ; the becks were dry and the tarns warm enough to give refreshing dips . |
| 5 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |