Example sentences of "be for the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 2 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
| 3 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 4 | Lawrence , Sibylle Zuckermann has been for the last six years teaching a Senior Citizens ' class . |
| 5 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 6 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 7 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 8 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 9 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 10 | Er fairly easy to determine what your background 's been for the last twenty six years er and I have to say that 's quite unusual these nowadays , particularly in financial services . |
| 11 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 12 | ‘ He hasnae been for the last three games . ’ |
| 13 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 14 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 15 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 16 | You 're told what the marks are for the next two tests aren |
| 17 | L and T have promised to keep to their obligations , the covenants , for the whole period of their lease — which may of course be for the next thousand years . |
| 18 | He needs to be for the next four days in Hong Kong , because he will be hard at work cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones . |
| 19 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 20 | it 's for the first three |
| 21 | At each anniversary National Savings will write and say what the guaranteed rate is for the next 12 months . |
| 22 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 23 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |
| 24 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 25 | Anne Lister was for the last fourteen years of her life the owner and occupant of Shibden Hall in Halifax . |
| 26 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 27 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |