Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 2 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 3 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 4 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 5 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 9 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 10 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 11 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 12 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |