Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 2 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 3 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 4 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 5 | Teacher assumptions concerning the classroom problems exhibited by ‘ West Indian ’ students have been documented for the past 20 years ( Brittain , 1976 ; Rampton , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | The views of people with learning difficulties have been documented for the past 15 years , so this is not new territory — though sections on the attitudes of parents and staff throw light on neglected issues . |
| 7 | Nitrate concentrations in rainwater have been increasing for the past seven years . |
| 8 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 10 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 11 | 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 . |