Example sentences of "[verb] been miss for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 2 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 3 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 4 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 5 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 6 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 7 | A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian . |
| 8 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 9 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 10 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 11 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 12 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 13 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |