Example sentences of "have been at [noun] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Chapman has been at Grendon for fourteen years . |
| 2 | Stützer , who has been at Kamekestrasse since 1980 and whose programme consists mainly of sculpture , is , until 6 June , showing neo-Constructivist works by the Yugoslav-born sculptor Wasa Marjanov . |
| 3 | Mrs Welch , head of trans-European and overseas initiatives , has been at Longlands for six years , moving there from Saltburn Comprehensive where she was head of physics . |
| 4 | The RAF has been at Abingdon since 1932 . |
| 5 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |
| 6 | He has been at Charlton for ten months after completing a period of secondment at Shaw 's in the USA . |
| 7 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 8 | He has been at Salisbury for 21 years — ‘ I 'm on my third bishop , my fourth dean and my fifth clerk ’ . |
| 9 | Rachel had been at OBEX for two years and was now senior sister in charge of the busy factory medical centre . |
| 10 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 11 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 12 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |
| 14 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 15 | Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period . |
| 16 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 17 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 18 | Tehran , Baghdad — Andropulos again playing both sides of the fence , Iran and Iraq had been at war for six years now — Tripoli , Damascus , Beirut , Athens , Rome , East Berlin , New York and London . |
| 19 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 20 | In 1951 the World Peace Pagoda was built , and in 1954 the Sixth Great InternatIonal Council of Buddhist monks and learned laity was opened ( the fifth had been at Mandalay in 1871 under the patronage of King Mindon ) . |
| 21 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 22 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 23 | It is not clear why the disease is usually not apparent until calves , turned out to graze in the spring , have been at grass for 2-5 months . |
| 24 | Hearts , who have been at Tynecastle since 1886 , decided to redevelop their existing stadium after plans to move to a greenfield site at Hermiston or Millerhill had been rejected by Lothian Regional Council . |