Example sentences of "[been] [prep] [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 2 | The project for the dam , which would be largest in the world , has been under consideration for nearly 70 years . |
| 3 | The bill , which had been under consideration for more than two years , would have ended the state monopoly on broadcasting and reorganized the radio and television services as independent public bodies . |
| 4 | Gorazde has been under siege for more than four hundred and fifty days . |
| 5 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |
| 6 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 7 | Mr Katz has been with Dillons for nearly three years — at Hatfield and Kingston — before which he was export divisional manager of Aaronson Bros furniture business . |
| 8 | Wooton , who has been with HCK for over six years , remains in place while terms of a settlement are agreed . |
| 9 | Jones , John Forman , James Hemphill and Haley Bulk Powder — names which will be familiar to anyone who has been with P&O for more than three years . |
| 10 | Robin has been with CCG for over ten years , initially in personnel and training in Scotland , and since 1985 in operational management . |
| 11 | Manager Douglas Scott has considerable experience in catering having been with CCG for almost 10 years . |
| 12 | Peter has been with BP for over 20 years , the last 5½ at Sullom Voe , latterly as production superintendent at the terminal . |
| 13 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 14 | The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name . |
| 15 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 16 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 17 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 18 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 19 | The idea , however , has been in existence for as long as man has worshipped . |
| 20 | For Opposition Members to paint a negative picture of TECs failing to do what they have been set up to do is not good enough , because , after all , they have been in existence for only two years . |
| 21 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 22 | Lisburn have been in existence for more than 150 years and is Ulster 's oldest surviving cricket club . |
| 23 | MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club . |
| 24 | ‘ Titron does n't appear to have been in port for over two years . |
| 25 | A student who has not been in attendance for more than three days through illness or other cause must notify immediately either the course director or senior course tutor , or the research supervisor , who shall inform the Academic Registrar . |
| 26 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 27 | I have n't been in wards for about twenty two years . |
| 28 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 29 | The US electronic industries have been in recession for about four years , and Morton 's business in this area is driven by computers , telecommunications and consumer electronics including components for cars , all of which have been hit . |
| 30 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |