TEST -1 Fill in the following sentences by using for or since |
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1. They have been living in Madrid ------ 1972. |
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2. He has been in prison ------ four years. |
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3. He has known about the fact ---------- a long time. |
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4. Conditions have changed a lot ----------- we were children. |
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5. Our teacher has been very ill ------------ the last month. |
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6. I haven't eaten anything ------------ twenty-four hours. |
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7. In fact he is always very rude. We have been waiting for him ------------- half an hour. |
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8. I haven't seen him ------------- three years. it is because I haven 't been there ---- I left school. |
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9. I have been trying to mend this old fashioned car ------------ hours. |
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10. One of my friends has been teaching in Tokyo --------- three years. I haven't met him ----------- last year. |
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11. I haven't enjoyed myself ---------- two weeks ------------ I heard that my final exam grades were low. |
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12. I know that you have never seen a lion --------------- you were born. |
Then now I say that we can go to the zoo and see one. |
13. The police have been looking for him ------------- two weeks ------------ he escaped from the prison. |
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14. He hasn't spoken to me even a word ------------ the last meeting. |
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15. I haven't phoned him ------------- a week. |
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16. He has been the principal of our high school ------------ 1988. |
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17. Dean has been learning Japanese -------------- two years. |