Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 2 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 4 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 5 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 6 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 7 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 8 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 9 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 10 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 11 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 12 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 13 | HARTLEPOOL United defender Keith Nobbs has been ruled out for four weeks . |
| 14 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 15 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 16 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 17 | At Builth in Central Wales , a complicated history has been worked out for one part of the Ordovician . |
| 18 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 19 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 20 | He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days . |
| 21 | Nothing 's been changed here for ninety years , ’ the barman told me . |