Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for ten [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years . |
| 2 | Michael Wainwright , 42 , from Sowerby Bridge , West Yorks. , has been jailed for ten years for entering Iraq . |
| 3 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 4 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 5 | The hostages could not have been held for ten minutes without Syrian permission . |
| 6 | If its august it must be Fairport … for these fifty Americans … some of whom having been coming for ten years … their annual pilgrimage to Oxfordshire for the Fairport Convention festival starts with a meeting with the folk rock band in a local pub . |
| 7 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 8 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 9 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 10 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 11 | It 's been engaged for ten minutes at least . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 13 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 14 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |