Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 2 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 3 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 4 | The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years . |
| 5 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 6 | HOUSE has been called for the last time at the Mecca bingo hall in Middlesbrough and its future is now uncertain . |
| 7 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 8 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 9 | On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ . |
| 10 | Mail coaches &c. unable to travel … the long continuance of so severe cold Weather having scarce been known for the last Century . |
| 11 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 12 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 13 | The legendary Plaza ballroom will find itself playing host to the London Pink Dancers at the opening tea dance , and the cavernous Tramway has been earmarked for the last night ceilidh . |
| 14 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 15 | Top of the agenda are the booms across the mouths of the lagoon for when the tides are especially high , and for the canal dredging , which has been neglected for the last forty years . |
| 16 | Bert Brown , the consortium 's sales and marketing director , said : ‘ It is true that the miners have not been paid for the last seven weeks . |
| 17 | However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) . |