Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | Planning permission has been granted for two ground-floor shops and 16 flats in three adjoining buildings in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 3 | A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months . |
| 4 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 5 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 6 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 7 | Since 1973 , in Columbus , Georgia , a death sentence has been sought for 43.8 per cent of those accused of killing a white female and only 2.6 per cent of those accused of killing a black female . |
| 8 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 9 | ‘ When a golf course has been played for 15 years , as The Belfry had , it begins to show certain areas where improvements can be made by fine-tuning . |
| 10 | Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah . |
| 11 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 12 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 13 | A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months . |
| 14 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 17 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 18 | Adkin New Homes Department has been established for twenty years , servicing a wide selection of large and small developments throughout Oxfordshire on behalf of our builder clients . |
| 19 | Although the casualty department has been closed for two years Mr Dale said it was imperative that it is opened because of its close proximity to London 's third airport . |
| 20 | If for instance , an employee has been employed for six months or more , the governing body must give the LEA a written statement of the reasons for dismissal . |
| 21 | The striking out is automatic as compared with Ord 13 , r 3(4) where the court has to give notice of intention to strike out where no action has been taken for 12 months . |
| 22 | A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years . |
| 23 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 24 | Rotation was continued until the gall bladder was clear on fluoroscopy and no impacts had been felt for five minutes . |
| 25 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 26 | Consecutive sentences of three months had been passed for two offences of driving while disqualified , with a further six months consecutive for an excess alcohol offence . |
| 27 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 28 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 29 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 30 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |