Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [v-ing] for [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 | Although Lapwings still breed in all open habitats in the county , including heathland , numbers have apparently been declining for over 80 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |
| 10 | 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 . |