Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] for [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 5 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 6 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |