Example sentences of "already been [v-ing] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 2 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 3 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 4 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 5 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |