Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular .
2 NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year .
3 They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny .
4 I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence .
5 They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury .
6 Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . "
7 ‘ Poor old England , too , had long been corroding from within .
8 Amongst dramatic recoveries were two chronically deaf patients who had also been suffering from totally disabling tinnitus .
9 Although Lapwings still breed in all open habitats in the county , including heathland , numbers have apparently been declining for over 80 years .
10 Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 .
11 Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years .
12 I have also been experimenting with more knitted ‘ jewellery ’ .
13 We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark .
14 Both have now been running for over 12 months , and the operating figures indicate that in addition to encouraging returns from food sales , drink sales have increased by approximately 10 per cent .
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