Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for three " in BNC.

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1 Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place .
2 Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years .
3 Your legs are wrecked for three or four days ’
4 As mentioned elsewhere , child benefit has been frozen for three consecutive years .
5 These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low .
6 These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low .
7 Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday .
8 Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks .
9 Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ?
10 Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble .
11 She and Caan had been separated for three years .
12 The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years .
13 Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days .
14 EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour .
15 No er in the Methodist er ci circuits they move them on , they 're , they 're invited for three years .
16 Sometimes they 're gone for three or four days at a time . ’
17 It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed .
18 ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’
19 Well mine ai n't been used for three month .
20 The budget is due now , but it has been postponed for three months .
21 There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades !
22 They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days .
23 His meeting had been timed for three o'clock .
24 Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain .
25 One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier .
26 He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years .
27 No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said .
28 This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons .
29 The review is not expected to be completed for three or four years but initial findings could be implemented by this autumn 's statement on spending .
30 Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together .
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