Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [noun sg] for [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 2 | Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The teacher was not highly qualified but very much alive and specially trained in English medium teaching at Kagumo Training College nearby ; the children had been learning English for six months . |
| 4 | Steve 's been playing golf for 18 months now . |
| 5 | And the Thompson woman who was administering glass for eight months , only it did n't take , so Freddie Bywaters had to stick a knife into the man near Ilford Station . |