Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] for five " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 2 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 3 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 4 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 5 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 6 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 7 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 8 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 10 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 11 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |