Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 2 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 3 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 4 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 5 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 6 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 7 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
| 8 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 9 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 12 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 13 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 14 | The overall trade deficit in 1990 , according to preliminary figures , was US$4,730 million — the first overall deficit to have been recorded for five years . |
| 15 | An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson . |
| 16 | A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years . |
| 17 | A MERSEYSIDE man who stabbed his common-law wife in the face with a kitchen knife has been jailed for five years . |
| 18 | The team doctor , Daniel Rodriguez , gets a life ban for submitting a fraudulent medical certificate detailing Rojas 's ‘ injury ’ ; and Fernando Astengo , Chile 's vice-captain who led the players off the pitch in the Maracana , has been suspended for five years . |