Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 3 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 4 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 5 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |