Example sentences of "been [prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been off drugs for three months . |
| 2 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 3 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 4 | But now living in South London he has n't been behind bars for ten years . |
| 5 | It 's been under wraps for weeks , but now the political biography everyone 's talking about has finally arrived . |
| 6 | Rachel Douglas ( left ) has been with Sekers for 19 years and Diane Madine for 17 years . |
| 7 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 8 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 9 | I have n't been in wards for about twenty two years . |
| 10 | Because it has been in reactors for so long , this sort of plutonium is not best-suited to nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 12 | Plans to revise that law , which dates from 1936 , have been discussed for decades , and have been before legislators for eight years . |
| 13 | For twenty years the 16+ has been to educationalists what the Irish Question has been to politicians for somewhat longer : it has consumed enormous energy , made and destroyed reputations , absorbed and dissipated creativity and made most men and women with common sense as well as intelligence adopt the stance of peripheral critics . |
| 14 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 15 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 17 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 18 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 19 | US Budweiser and the firm in Ceske Budejovice have been at loggerheads for almost a century , exchanging writs over the use of the Budweiser name . |
| 20 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 21 | The pair were reported to have been at odds for some time with one major area of disagreement believed to concern a £2.2m Venables attempt to land England defender Des Walker from Sampdoria . |
| 22 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 23 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 24 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |