Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
| 2 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 3 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 4 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 5 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 6 | Ministers will continue to review every case where a life sentence prisoner has been detained for 10 years . |
| 7 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A BANGOR man found in possession of cannabis worth a street value of £40,000 has been jailed for 18 months . |
| 11 | A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months . |
| 12 | A BUSINESSMAN has been jailed for 18 months for receiving thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods . |
| 13 | A 20-YEAR-OLD Belfast man has been jailed for eight years for his part in an armed robbery of more than £6,000 from an Ulster Bank . |
| 14 | A man who tortured a cat in the cellar of his house has been jailed for six months . |
| 15 | A farmer has been jailed for six months for cruelty to his animals . |
| 16 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
| 17 | A DARLINGTON woman has been jailed for six months . |
| 18 | Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen . |
| 19 | A driving examiner has been jailed for four months for indecently assaulting four women test candidates . |
| 20 | A bird breeder has been jailed for four years after stolen rare birds were found wrapped in sacking in the boot of his car . |
| 21 | The magistrate who tried to kill his wife with a home-made gas chamber has been jailed for nine years . |
| 22 | A man who was caught in possession of a stolen famous painting has been jailed for eighteen months at the High Court in Edinburgh . |
| 23 | A youth has been jailed for eighteen months for beating a man so badly his own father did n't recognise him . |
| 24 | Twenty-five year old David Taylor of Chillingworth Crescent in Woodfarm has been jailed for eighteen months for possession of drugs . |
| 25 | The former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club Brian Hillier has been jailed for twelve months . |
| 26 | An armed robber has been jailed for fifteen years after shots were fired at police during a chase after a post office raid . |
| 27 | Here 's the son of Kirk Douglas has been jailed for five days after kicking a policeman ! |
| 28 | An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson . |
| 29 | A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years . |
| 30 | A MERSEYSIDE man who stabbed his common-law wife in the face with a kitchen knife has been jailed for five years . |