Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] 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 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 3 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 4 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 5 | 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 . |