Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] for several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
2 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
3 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
4 | This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years . |
5 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
6 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
7 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
8 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
9 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
10 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
11 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
12 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
13 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
14 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
15 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
18 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
19 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
20 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
21 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
22 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
23 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
24 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |