Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Because the concern here is with general trends and not annual variations , the rates are calculated for five year blocks .
2 Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place .
3 She had been paralysed for thirty years .
4 ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’
5 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 .
6 By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old .
7 Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones .
8 For example on our larger ships we are catering for 1900 passengers and 600 crew which means that about 7500 meals a day are consumed , excluding snacks and buffets .
9 From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes .
10 He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh .
11 Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years .
12 I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school .
13 In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance .
14 It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt .
15 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 ) .
16 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 .
17 10 IN-SERVICE DAYS Teaching the Elderly , this day has been arranged for 12 May — London venue to be notified later .
18 The new modules have been developed for two groups of students : those returning to S5 for a limited period of time , and those who intend to complete a full year 's programme of study in S5 or S6 .
19 Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) .
20 However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others .
21 Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour .
22 Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour .
23 Later booster and long term follow-up sessions are arranged for one month , then three months , after completion of the structured programme .
24 After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries .
25 These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years .
26 His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks .
27 Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland .
28 One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) .
29 Packed into a huge , windowless shed , flocks of 20,000–100,000 birds are reared for seven weeks and then slaughtered .
30 Well over 100 applications had been received for 35 places on a new course starting this year .
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