Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] for three " in BNC.
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1 | 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 |
2 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
3 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
4 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
5 | His meeting had been timed for three o'clock . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
8 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
9 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
10 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |