Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [prep] [adv] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most languages with writing systems alphabetic fingerspelling has been available for over two hundred years . |
| 2 | Although vocational training for general practice has been mandatory for almost two decades , only 40% of general practitioners registering with the General Medical Council had a psychiatric attachment . |
| 3 | It guarantees a place to anyone aged 18 to 25 who has been unemployed for over six months , and attempts to offer a place to anyone up to 50 who has been unemployed for over two years . |
| 4 | The majority of leg ulcers ( 291 : 62 per cent ) had been present for under two years , 48 per cent ( 141 ) of these for less than six months . |
| 5 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 6 | Many other surveys were conducted at this time , employing the newly re-established social science departments , which had been inactive for over two decades . |
| 7 | She was an Irish Catholic woman of twenty-eight and had been married for nearly two years . |
| 8 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |