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 . |