Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [be] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.

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1 But that has been happening for hundreds of years .
2 But that has been happening for hundreds of years .
3 The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee .
4 A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years .
5 A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years .
6 The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river .
7 By 1986 UDGs worth £78 million had been approved for 177 projects , with a public-to-private-sector ratio of 1:4.5 .
8 The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years .
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