Example sentences of "been [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 2 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 3 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 4 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 5 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 6 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 7 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 8 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 9 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 10 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 13 | Following the very successful session with at the January Q.T. Day a further programme has been arranged for 7 July at the ( the venue to be confirmed ) . |
| 14 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
| 15 | 10 IN-SERVICE DAYS Teaching the Elderly , this day has been arranged for 12 May — London venue to be notified later . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 18 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 19 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 20 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 23 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 24 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 25 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 26 | Well over 100 applications had been received for 35 places on a new course starting this year . |
| 27 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 28 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 29 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 30 | Where the right has been enjoyed for 40 years , it is to be considered ’ absolute and indefeasible ’ . |