Example sentences of "been doing for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 2 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 3 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 6 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 7 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 8 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 9 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 11 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |