Example sentences of "been [verb] for [det] weeks " 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 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 3 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 8 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 9 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 10 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |