Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.

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1 Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years .
2 Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz .
3 All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out .
4 The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ .
5 Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible .
6 Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now .
7 The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs .
8 Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses .
9 McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around .
10 McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around .
11 McKoy , the hometown favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around .
12 McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold .
13 Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend .
14 ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush .
15 The central plains of China have been farmed continuously for thousands of years and you begin to wonder how they have stayed fertile .
16 Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth .
17 The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years .
18 The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years .
19 Eighteen patients have now been followed up for 33 ( 24–42 ) months without any biliary problems .
20 The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth .
21 HARTLEPOOL United defender Keith Nobbs has been ruled out for four weeks .
22 She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne .
23 Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton .
24 In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress .
25 At Builth in Central Wales , a complicated history has been worked out for one part of the Ordovician .
26 A red flood alert has been issued tonight for one of the region 's rivers .
27 Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months .
28 Records have been kept there for two hundred years .
29 I have been lost here for eight years . ’
30 He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days .
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