Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] for [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 2 | This practice has been followed for over 300 years at High Bridge End , St. John 's in the Vale , and until recently at Adamthwaite in the Howgills , and it is referred to in Langdale also . |
| 3 | An association between hypertension and diabetes has been suspected for over 70 years . |
| 4 | Northern Ireland has been warring for over 20 years . |
| 5 | Bruce and Pat Cottrill , of Colwyn Bay , are furious that killer Frederic Blancke has been jailed for only 15 years , which means he could be free before the end of the century . |
| 6 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 7 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 8 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 9 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 10 | ‘ OPTIONS ’ has been running for over ten years in America , four years on the UK mainland and over two years in the province . |
| 11 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 12 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 13 | This interspecific backcross mapping panel has been typed for over 700 loci that are well distributed among all the autosomes as well as the X chromosome ( 35 ) . |
| 14 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 15 | Although homoeopathy has been practised for nearly two hundred years in many countries of the world , very little work has been performed in the way of well-conducted clinical trials to prove and assess its efficacy . |
| 16 | Compost-making on a farm scale is yet uncommon in Britain ( it has been practised for over 4,000 years in China ) as it involves a very careful balance and mixing of ingredients , control of ventilation and moisture , and the extra work of at least one turning . |
| 17 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 18 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 19 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 20 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 21 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 22 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 23 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 24 | It has been established for over 100 years , and has eight offices throughout the UK and a subsidiary in Guernsey . |
| 25 | AN ASSOCIATION for all former pupils and staff of St Hugh 's School , Birkenhead , has been established for about four years and its main function is an annual reunion mass held on or near the Feast of St Hugh of Lincoln . |
| 26 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 27 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 28 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 29 | But the vessel , now being fitting out in an estuary in northern Spain , has been designed for just one voyage . |
| 30 | Libyan politics has been dominated for over two decades by Col. Moamer al Kadhafi who came to power in the military coup of 1969 [ see p. 23569 ] . |