Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for [adj] months " in BNC.

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1 It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff .
2 This latest development in a saga which has been running for many months represents a change of heart by the Saints ' board .
3 Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down .
4 Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail .
5 Voluntary Project administrator Roy Montgomery is convinced the scheme , which has been running for three months , is a major success — and a lifeline for local young people .
6 POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months .
7 One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) .
8 Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now .
9 The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy .
10 Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months :
11 The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue .
12 In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months .
13 In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go .
14 Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets .
15 she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’
16 The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft .
17 They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France .
18 ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said .
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