Example sentences of "been [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 10 IN-SERVICE DAYS Teaching the Elderly , this day has been arranged for 12 May — London venue to be notified later . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well over 100 applications had been received for 35 places on a new course starting this year . |
| 16 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 17 | Where the right has been enjoyed for 40 years , it is to be considered ’ absolute and indefeasible ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 19 | The money , under the EC 's Rechar programme , has been frozen for 18 months while the political dispute raged on . |
| 20 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 21 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 22 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 23 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 24 | The 12 cider apple trees in the orchard at Lower House Farm , Yarpole near Leominster have n't been picked for 5 years . |
| 25 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 26 | Initial clinical results have been reported for 10 patients . |
| 27 | Thus the Cleveland Dance Orchestra has been booked for two evenings with the Dolphineers . |
| 28 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 29 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 30 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |