Example sentences of "had been in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llewelyn had been in council for several hours , and was no less weary ; nevertheless , he saw the labour and pain with which Owen bent his knee to him , and reached to take him up before he could complete his reverence . |
| 2 | The hook shown had been in service for four years and showed very little wear . |
| 3 | When she was young , Aunt Bessie had been in service for a well-off family with a certain Mrs Leigh , who lived in Colne in Lancashire . |
| 4 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 5 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 6 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 7 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 8 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |
| 9 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 10 | Colonia Dignidad , situated in Parral , 400 km south of Santiago , and inhabited by an estimated 300 people , mainly West Germans , had been in existence for 28 years and was variously linked with slave labour , child sexual abuse , and the torture and disappearance of political prisoners . |
| 11 | However , Gen. José Dante Caridi , who had stood down as Army Chief of Staff after the rebellion , immediately denied the existence of any such deal ( as did his successor , Gen. Francisco Gassino , who warned that he would respond firmly to any further mutinies ) and accused Seineldin of excessive nationalism and fundamentalism and of being involved in a group of Army conspirators which had been in existence for 25 years . |
| 12 | Of those on benefit half had been in receipt for more than 2.6 years . |
| 13 | According to Mr Carson , the professor had taken his degree at Oxford , but he had been in America for several years now . |
| 14 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 15 | The great Chertsey Road had been in construction for some while as it involved the building of three new bridges over the River Thames at Chiswick , Richmond and Twickenham , but it was completed in 1933 , and the entire achievement was formally opened by Edward , Prince of Wales , who drove along the route , cutting ribbons at each of the three bridges . |
| 16 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 17 | The agreement was signed yesterday morning after the company had been in receivership for exactly 18 weeks . |
| 18 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 19 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 20 | In response , First Edition project director Mark Hodder-Williams said that First Edition had been in operation for nine months , and had successfully provided users with an efficient , fast computer-to-computer service for exchanging a wide range of commercial documents . |
| 21 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 22 | Di Scott , of Fairbridge , explained : ‘ After the ship had been in operation for some time it was realised that a great deal of money was needed for maintenance and running costs . |
| 23 | Mr Bell said the system of having one ambulance on call at each of the county 's 11 stations after 7pm every night had been in operation for many years . |
| 24 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 25 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 26 | Harthacnut , no older than seventeen , had been in Denmark for some years by 1035 . |
| 27 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 28 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 29 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 30 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |