Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 2 | WORKERS at Monktonhall Colliery , who have not been paid for seven weeks , are to receive financial assistance from Lothian Regional Council to fund an independent study into the pit 's viability . |
| 3 | The team have also been called for 11 holding penalties in the last two games . |
| 4 | Tenders have also been called for 7,500 hp Co-Co two-voltage Railfreight locomotives capable of operating on both sides of the Channel , and BREL ( 1988 ) Ltd has already submitted initial designs . |
| 5 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |
| 6 | Most of his staff are currently on strike because they have n't been paid for two months , so Soliz is going personally to open the new group and give the first lesson . |
| 7 | The makeshift team of veteran professionals and apprentices have n't been paid for three months and the club must find a quarter of a million pounds to guarantee survival . |
| 8 | The players have n't been paid for three months , so who in their right mind wants to rescue them ? |
| 9 | The 12 cider apple trees in the orchard at Lower House Farm , Yarpole near Leominster have n't been picked for 5 years . |
| 10 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 11 | It is worth mentioning , however , that it is not always the nasal pathways that have been observed to be superior ( Neill , Sampson and Gribben , 1971 ) and that naso-temporal differences have sometimes been observed for one eye but not for the other ( Overton and Weiner , 1966 ; Markowitz and Weitzman , 1969 ; Beaton , 1977 ; 1979a ) . |