Example sentences of "have been in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 2 | ‘ You can win money but you can not eat , ’ said a member of the Ukrainian-Russian squad who have been in England for the past fortnight . |
| 3 | Nor do they always distinguish Turks who have been in Germany for years from recent ‘ economic migrants ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ All these customers were gained from , or won in competition with , Castrol , who have been in Czechoslovakia for 30 years , ’ says Pomfret with delight . |
| 5 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 6 | MAGISTRATES ' Courts have been in existence for hundreds of years , presided over by lay Justices of the Peace ( magistrates ) , that is people who have no legal qualification . |
| 7 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |
| 8 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |
| 9 | By then , however , the main outlines have been in existence for a very long time , and it is these earlier arrangements about which we really need to know more and where future research should be concentrated . |
| 10 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lisburn have been in existence for more than 150 years and is Ulster 's oldest surviving cricket club . |
| 13 | The EGBT have been in existence for some years and have proved themselves a respectable and reliable organisation with several completed projects to their credit . |
| 14 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 15 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 16 | " They have been in seclusion for eight days , " said the sultan , " learning the secrets of womanhood . |
| 17 | At present , horizontal presses of between 2,000 and 8,000 kilograms are allowed , but trials with larger machines have been in progress for several years . |
| 18 | IBOA and its members have grave concerns about this development and negotiations have been in progress for the past number of months . |
| 19 | At the time of writing these provisions have been in operation for nearly six months and appear to be effective . |
| 20 | At present , only 18 people in the Health and Safety Executive are working on those regulations , and even though the provisions have been in operation for about two and a half years , fewer than one third of the safety cases have been accepted as being proper working documents . |
| 21 | ( It is interesting to note that the Jeffery family have been in Donhead for centuries as The Visitation of Wilts 1565 records that the first wife of Alderman Thomas Pople of Salisbury , was ‘ Katherine , daughter to John Jeffery of Doned Marie , Dorset ’ . ) |
| 22 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Engineer Peter William Barlow sank the first hole in the ground on Tower Hill in 1869. 130 years on we 've got creaking trains that have been in service for 30 years and more . |
| 25 | When releasing barn owls that have been in captivity for a long time , we keep them confined to the barn until we 're sure that they are going to adapt happily to their new surrounding . ( ) |
| 26 | They are Amazonian fish , and although they have been in captivity for a very long time , they will appreciate the soft acid water that nature designed them for , and this may prove essential for breeding . |
| 27 | Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’ |
| 28 | These laws have been in force for hundreds of years — and they 're one of the things that are going to disappear in 1992 , at least in Germany . |
| 29 | Where such contracts have been in force for 3 years or longer , but are not for a specific undertaking eg building a house , claims are admissible under the policy . |
| 30 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |