Example sentences of "been [verb] for [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 4 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 5 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 6 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 7 | Well mine ai n't been used for three month . |
| 8 | ‘ The standards for cab design have been set for one person , so we foresee problems with having two seats , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 9 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 10 | ATWO-HOUR reduction in the working week , from 39 to 37 hours , has been negotiated for 3,000 North-east workers in the most significant break in the engineering strike since it began a fortnight ago . |
| 11 | It is worth mentioning , however , that it is not always the nasal pathways that have been observed to be superior ( Neill , Sampson and Gribben , 1971 ) and that naso-temporal differences have sometimes been observed for one eye but not for the other ( Overton and Weiner , 1966 ; Markowitz and Weitzman , 1969 ; Beaton , 1977 ; 1979a ) . |
| 12 | I am left with no alternative but to seek legal advice on this matter which I believe has been taken for one reason and one reason only — that is to discourage the importation of fish to secure employment in the Grampian area . ’ |
| 13 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |