Example sentences of "[been] missing for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 2 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 5 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 6 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 7 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 8 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 9 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 10 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 11 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 12 | A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian . |
| 13 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 14 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 15 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 16 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |
| 17 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |