Example sentences of "have been on [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hercules transport aircraft , which has been on standby for the past two days will fly to the Croatian capital Zagreb . |
| 2 | She has been on HRT for four years , has never suffered dryness again and attributes to it her general energy and enjoyment of life . |
| 3 | Union officials claimed their members were locked out after the 400 strong workforce , which has been on strike for just over two weeks , met yesterday to consider a management proposal . |
| 4 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 5 | One is , of course , that an old and tried medicine which has been on use for perhaps a hundred/a hundred and fifty/two hundred years is really a very safe medicine and you wo n't come to much harm by buying it and taking it . |
| 6 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 7 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 8 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 9 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 10 | The Corporation may have been on cover for several years and when subsidence damage is discovered , it requires full underpinning . |
| 11 | Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere . |
| 12 | Chang , the sixth seed , was clearly exhausted by the two-and-a-half hour match after having been on court for nearly four hours on Friday when he beat Russian Andrei Chesnokov in the quarter-finals . |
| 13 | Market specialists are convinced that at least three major deals , having been on ice for months , are now all set to roll , helping S G Warburg rise 64 to 538p , Hambros add 22 to 238p and Kleinwort Benson gain 19 to 238p . |
| 14 | His nerves had been on hold for days . |
| 15 | She had been on call for forty-eight hours , had snatched very little sleep , and was about to enjoy two full days leave . |
| 16 | Not only had it been obvious from the map that they were ninety degrees off course but they had been on tarmac for nine miles after being told that the track in In Salah was dirt from its start . |
| 17 | So commenced a dramatic operation , code named " Geneva II " , for which the whole of our cutter fleet , together with more than a hundred shore-based officers , had been on standby for several days . |
| 18 | The patients had been on treatment for more than six months and although the type of NSAID varied , all had been established on one drug continuously for over six weeks . |
| 19 | On March 26 , schools and colleges reopened in Tirgu Mures , including the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy whose ethnic Hungarian students had been on strike for three weeks , and tension in the city and surrounding region was reported to have eased . |
| 20 | Detective Chief Inspector John Leicester Finch and Detective Constable Robert Turner had been on trial for eighteen days at Luton Crown Court . |
| 21 | ‘ Terry had been on tea for four years before he first began using horse . ’ |
| 22 | He had been on duty for nine hours without a break , and after changing the symbols had gone to obtain refreshment . |
| 23 | UPH 's shareholders may wonder why Desmond spent £4.4m of their money on a site which had been on offer for £2.7m . |
| 24 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 25 | But even for him there 's a thrill playing with bands who 've been on top for quarter of a century |
| 26 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 27 | They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting . |
| 28 | The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’ |
| 29 | Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government . |
| 30 | A quarter of the country 's coal miners have been on strike for three weeks demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev , the dissolution of the Soviet parliament and the transfer of power to the Federation Council , composed of the elected leaders of the 15 republics . |