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 . |