Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] for [num] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McNally : ‘ This investigation has been ongoing for five months . |
| 2 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 3 | In case police behaviour changes as new procedures and rules become familiar , then whole research exercise will be repeated again after the Act has been operational for eighteen months ( summer 1987 ) . |
| 4 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 5 | Haim Scheider , an economist who left Lithuania 10 years ago , has been unemployed for 18 months , but still has no regrets . |
| 6 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 7 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 8 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 9 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 10 | They have been vacant for three months . |
| 11 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 12 | That 's why we have put in place the most varied , comprehensive programme ever to help people who have been unemployed for six months or more . ’ |
| 13 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's been temporary for six months now . |