Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] nearly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 2 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 3 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 4 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 5 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |