Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 2 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 3 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 4 | Well mine ai n't been used for three month . |
| 5 | ‘ The standards for cab design have been set for one person , so we foresee problems with having two seats , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 6 | ATWO-HOUR reduction in the working week , from 39 to 37 hours , has been negotiated for 3,000 North-east workers in the most significant break in the engineering strike since it began a fortnight ago . |
| 7 | It is worth mentioning , however , that it is not always the nasal pathways that have been observed to be superior ( Neill , Sampson and Gribben , 1971 ) and that naso-temporal differences have sometimes been observed for one eye but not for the other ( Overton and Weiner , 1966 ; Markowitz and Weitzman , 1969 ; Beaton , 1977 ; 1979a ) . |
| 8 | I am left with no alternative but to seek legal advice on this matter which I believe has been taken for one reason and one reason only — that is to discourage the importation of fish to secure employment in the Grampian area . ’ |