Example sentences of "not [be] in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Describing the plight of Somali children , it explains : ’ Many of them have not been in school for several years when they arrive in this country ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The child is right , this escalator , like so many on the London Underground network , has not been in operation for months . |
| 5 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 6 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 7 | Since coming here , I 've not been in trouble for a year ’ . |
| 8 | Russell Bryant had not been in touch for some time and she seemed to think he had given up . ’ |
| 9 | It will inevitably by called ‘ blackthorn ’ , which should not be in flower for a month , bringing its ‘ winter ’ with it , and growing on short-jointed tangles of stems rather than on the slender longer shoots of these bushy trees . |
| 10 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 11 | I have n't been in wards for about twenty two years . |
| 12 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 13 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 14 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 15 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 16 | Yeah , they had n't been in hospital for a few years , they have n't , I 've never known to go in . |
| 17 | The pub has n't been in use for several years . |
| 18 | It seemed a shame that it could n't be in time for my mother 's birthday on the 8th but at least it was a good target for which to aim . |
| 19 | Unlike me , you wo n't be in Purgatory for long . ’ |
| 20 | All the other pros are going mad to get hold of them , but Jefferson says this is the only one — a prototype in the real sense — and it wo n't be in production for several months . ’ |