Example sentences of "have been in [noun] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All these customers were gained from , or won in competition with , Castrol , who have been in Czechoslovakia for 30 years , ’ says Pomfret with delight . |
| 2 | MAGISTRATES ' Courts have been in existence for hundreds of years , presided over by lay Justices of the Peace ( magistrates ) , that is people who have no legal qualification . |
| 3 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 4 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 5 | All recorded immigrants have been in excess of four inches high . ’ |
| 6 | " They have been in seclusion for eight days , " said the sultan , " learning the secrets of womanhood . |
| 7 | The problem is to seek the correct balance , and to this end monitoring and studies have been in progress since 1989 . |
| 8 | ‘ We are established in many other sports , including the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup , the RAC Rally , the Silk Cut Derby at Hickstead , the Benson and Hedges Snooker Masters at Wembley , the Volvo European PGA Tour and the British Grand Prix ’ , explains Delahunty , ‘ and although we have been in tennis since 1985 when Stella Artois first commissioned us , I still look at tennis as a growth area . |
| 9 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 10 | Engineer Peter William Barlow sank the first hole in the ground on Tower Hill in 1869. 130 years on we 've got creaking trains that have been in service for 30 years and more . |
| 11 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 12 | It has been reported for example that the UK has been identified as the main European culprit as far as sulphur emissions and the killing of Norway and Sweden 's lakes is concerned , yet the UK 's sulphur emissions have been in decline since 1970 while acidification has not . |
| 13 | Similar provisions have been in force since 1980 . |
| 14 | These laws have been in force for hundreds of years — and they 're one of the things that are going to disappear in 1992 , at least in Germany . |
| 15 | Where such contracts have been in force for 3 years or longer , but are not for a specific undertaking eg building a house , claims are admissible under the policy . |
| 16 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 17 | " But we have been in Egypt for three months . |
| 18 | I have been in rescue for 15 years , but I just can not explain that feeling . ’ |
| 19 | It is now occupied by an order of nuns , Canonesses of St Augustine , who have been in residence since 1946 , and who run religious retreats , holidays , weekend courses and meetings . |
| 20 | Although employment protection provisions have been in place for 18 years now , all too often reports of unfair dismissal cases are variations on the same theme : companies trying to get rid of pregnant employees in an effort to avoid extra expense and disruption to the working routine . |
| 21 | The restrictions on imports from and exports to South Africa have been in place since 1985 . |
| 22 | The restrictions on imports from and exports to South Africa have been in place since 1985 . |
| 23 | Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence . |
| 24 | The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services has shown , for example , that long stay and ‘ new long stay ’ patients ( those who have been in hospital between one and five years ) generally do well when they are discharged into the community . |
| 25 | Jimmy Moon is an independent builder and repairer whose workshops have been in Glasgow since 1985 and before that on the Isle of Arran , off the West coast of Scotland . |
| 26 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 27 | We 've done a comparison between those that were in arrears before the beginning of ninety two and ones that have been in arrears after ninety two , and it 's erm approximately eighty percent before ninety two erm twenty percent after . |