Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for seven [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
2 | A second Briton , Paul Ride , 33 , has been jailed for seven years on a similar charge . |
3 | A man who carried out a series of indiscriminate attacks on people he thought were students has been jailed for seven years . |
4 | Paul Ride has been jailed for seven years for illegally entering the country . |
5 | A 37-YEAR-OLD ex-UDR man who admitted to Belfast Crown Court he kept guns and bomb-making equipment for a ‘ Doomsday situation ’ has been jailed for seven years . |
6 | ‘ Gran Reserva ’ indicates it has been aged for seven years . |
7 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
8 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
9 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
10 | Giorgos Balafas , who had been sought for seven years in connection with crimes committed by November 17 and another urban guerrilla group , Anti-State Struggle , had been arrested on Nov. 1 . |
11 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |
12 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
13 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
14 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |