Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The E-culture has only been raving since 1986 , so perhaps it is too early to tell if it can cause long term mental changes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 4 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 12 | The UKAEA had already been working on two prototypes — a high temperature successor to the AGR ( called the Dragon ) and the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor , another uniquely British concept . |
| 13 | The Slovak government initially claimed that they had been planted by the federal authorities in the 1980s and had not been functioning since 1989 . |
| 14 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 17 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |