Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] for three " in BNC.
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| 31 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 32 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 33 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 34 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 35 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 36 | His meeting had been timed for three o'clock . |
| 37 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 38 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 39 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 40 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 41 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 42 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 43 | He had been banned for three years for drink-driving in January , 1991. 18-month ban A DRINK-driver fractured three ribs when his car hit a skip , Wirral magistrates were told yesterday . |
| 44 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 45 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 46 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 47 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 48 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 49 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 50 | The presenters have been suspended for three months . |
| 51 | A paid-up policy is only available if premiums have been paid for three years and the reduced sum is £400 or more . |
| 52 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 53 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 54 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 55 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 56 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 57 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |