Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
| 2 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 3 | The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years . |
| 4 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 5 | The Scholarships , Grants and Awards have been strengthened for 1993 with the addition of several new ones . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 7 | The two areas have been twinned for 35 years . |
| 8 | About 3000 water samples , collected in the Liverpool Bay-Anglesey area as part of the Geochemical Survey Programme , have been analysed for 28 elements . |
| 9 | The 25 patients ( 11 men , 14 women ; mean age 54 [ 28–79 ] years ) included for comparison who had neither excessive numbers of normal naevi nor atypical naevi have been followed for 213 person-years . |
| 10 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 11 | While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . , |
| 12 | The new modules have been developed for two groups of students : those returning to S5 for a limited period of time , and those who intend to complete a full year 's programme of study in S5 or S6 . |
| 13 | He says the old skills have been lost for 80 years . |
| 14 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 15 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 16 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 17 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 18 | A surgeon and his wife who 's also a doctor have been jailed for nine and three months respectively for repeatedly assaulting their housemaid . |
| 19 | Two huntsmen have been jailed for two months for knocking down a hunt saboteur with a four wheeled buggy . |
| 20 | The whale hunters from the Lofoten Islands , the heart of Norway 's whaling industry , are eager to put their point of view , saying that whales have been hunted for ten thousand years and are an integral part of the local diet . |
| 21 | ‘ The standards for cab design have been set for one person , so we foresee problems with having two seats , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 22 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 23 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 24 | ‘ What is the true financial cost to the public of this deal , and why we have been deceived for 16 months ? ’ |
| 25 | Amongst the delegates were three British senior tutors , who have been seconded for two years to the EBI financed by the ODA , to assist with the setting up of tuition and training services — Geoff Sales , Phil Brear and Pal Mangla . |
| 26 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 27 | Initial clinical results have been reported for 10 patients . |
| 28 | Although the NRA warned that the programme 's cost will be high , and that there are no " quick fix " remedies , solutions have been identified for 10 of the rivers . |
| 29 | Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ . |
| 30 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |