Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 2 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 3 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 5 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 6 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 9 | While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . , |
| 10 | Amongst the delegates were three British senior tutors , who have been seconded for two years to the EBI financed by the ODA , to assist with the setting up of tuition and training services — Geoff Sales , Phil Brear and Pal Mangla . |
| 11 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 12 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 13 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 14 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 15 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 16 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 17 | ‘ What is the true financial cost to the public of this deal , and why we have been deceived for 16 months ? ’ |
| 18 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 19 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 20 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 21 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 22 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 24 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |