Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refuge has been supported for the past 18 years by the Swindon-based financial services group Allied Dunbar . |
| 2 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 3 | The Adult Basic Education Unit at Darlington College of Technology has been funded for the past two years by a grant from the Department of Education and Science . |
| 4 | The centre has been run for the past ten years by Richard Gill and his brother Jeff — they say that three quarters of their guests come as individuals though they are happy to take groups . |
| 5 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 6 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 7 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 8 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 9 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 10 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 11 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 12 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 13 | It has been rumoured for the past year that there are moves afoot to remove Cork from the list of Tarmac championship rounds . |