Example sentences of "been [verb] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 3 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 4 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 5 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 6 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 7 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 8 | Darlington health authority 's budget has been frozen for the next four years prompting a review of spending priorities . |
| 9 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 10 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 11 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 13 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 15 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 16 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 17 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 18 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 19 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 20 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 21 | The trial had been featured for the previous three days . |
| 22 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 24 | Where , in Persuasion , the younger Musgroves ' search for novelty gets them into trouble , other new ventures meet with approval , like Emma 's introduction into Hartfield of a large modern circular table , as in Fig. 7b , in place of the smaller portable Pembroke ( Fig. 41a ) on to which her father 's tea and supper have been crowded for the previous forty years . |
| 25 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 26 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 27 | In 1818 , the Walker colliery which had been closed for the preceding 30 years was reopened . |
| 28 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 29 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 30 | Your flat 's been bugged for the past two months . ’ |