Example sentences of "be [adj] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 3 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 4 | Many of the debts sued for , all undefended , had been outstanding for three , four , five and six years , or even for a longer period . |
| 5 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 6 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps . |
| 8 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 9 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 10 | ‘ With leukaemia in a child they say that if they are clear for five years , then all is well . |
| 11 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 12 | People in here have been brain-dead for fifteen years . ’ |
| 13 | she 's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever |
| 14 | ‘ He 's been free for three days now , and people are frightened . |
| 15 | She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years . |
| 16 | Haim Scheider , an economist who left Lithuania 10 years ago , has been unemployed for 18 months , but still has no regrets . |
| 17 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 18 | The following table shows where a sample of school-leavers who had either been on a government Youth Opportunities Scheme ( YOPS ) or been unemployed for six weeks by the beginning of October 1978 had ended up by April 1979 . |
| 19 | That 's why we have put in place the most varied , comprehensive programme ever to help people who have been unemployed for six months or more . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 21 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 22 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 23 | Those who have been unemployed for three or more years are not asked about their previous employment , and are thereby excluded from the survey . |
| 24 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 25 | Surely the hon. Gentleman would expect an inspector commenting on school buildings to do so in proper context by drawing attention to the fact that deterioration , about which we are all concerned , has been prevalent for 40 or 50 years , and sometimes much longer . |
| 26 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 27 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 28 | I mean it looked like the house had been derelict for forty years . |
| 29 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 30 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |