Example sentences of "[be] away [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime in the future you may wish to let your home whilst you are away for six months or more . |
| 2 | I am away for four weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ I am away for eight months a year and we hardly see each other . |
| 4 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 5 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 6 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 7 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 8 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 9 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 10 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 11 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 12 | I , I did promise that I 'd be away at eight o'clock . |
| 13 | It was the fact that she would be away for six weeks or more that had brought things to a head . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm only going to be away for forty-eight hours … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll only be away for four nights , ’ she explained to Constance . |
| 16 | He very rarely spoke about business matters to Georgina and decided on reflection against recounting the day 's events except to say that he was leaving for Istanbul in the morning , and would be away for three or four days . |
| 17 | Mr John Deighton , of High Pottergate , Richmond , expects to be away for three years . |
| 18 | We plan to go to Indonesia and China for sure and should be away for ten to 12 months . |
| 19 | I myself will be away from 7 July until 8 August , and then again from 28 August until 12 September . |
| 20 | I must be away by eleven at the latest , though . |
| 21 | You should now be left with two acetate page markers , and everything else should be away in one of the binders , apart possibly from the dates . |
| 22 | And when I arrived home in England , after being away for five years , my wife and children were delighted to see me , because they had thought I was dead . |
| 23 | The you said , that you were away for six years . |
| 24 | It 's unlikely that the guy can even come in because he 's partner 's away for two to three weeks holiday |
| 25 | Well they sent me , I went on a computer course two days before I went to in hospital and was away for eight weeks and I forgot totally |
| 26 | He was away for three weeks . |
| 27 | I knew her husband was away on one of the seemingly endless ‘ summit , conferences governments of the world , and especially the Arab governments , invent to try to keep our human condition in existence . |
| 28 | The editor would also have the authority to make decisions when Pilger was away on one of his frequent trips abroad , within guidelines which Pilger would lay down . |
| 29 | She was away in five minutes . |
| 30 | I was away in ten minutes . |