Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] for [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McNally : ‘ This investigation has been ongoing for five months . |
| 2 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 3 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . ‘ |
| 6 | Haim Scheider , an economist who left Lithuania 10 years ago , has been unemployed for 18 months , but still has no regrets . |
| 7 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 8 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 9 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 10 | She noted the greasy chenille tablecloth which was threadbare where the table edge cut into it — a sure sign , Nelly knew , that the cloth had been undisturbed for many months . |
| 11 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 12 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 13 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 16 | They have been vacant for three months . |
| 17 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 18 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been temporary for six months now . |