Example sentences of "been [verb] for [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 2 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 5 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 6 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 7 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 8 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 9 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 10 | A meeting has been organised for next week to discuss the situation . |
| 11 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 12 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 13 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 14 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 15 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 16 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 17 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 18 | The pub has been closed for eight weeks but tenant Tracy Willcox said the renovation was a vast improvement . |
| 19 | A special meeting has therefore been called for two weeks time in order to press forward with ideas that could be implemented next season . |
| 20 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 21 | The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks . |
| 22 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 23 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 24 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 25 | ‘ But the win over Wimbledon means that our hopes have been extended for another week and we are still in the ball game . |
| 26 | It had initially been planned for next week . |
| 27 | It had initially been planned for next week . |
| 28 | It had earlier been planned for next week . |
| 29 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 30 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |