Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [noun] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 Yamaha 's factory in Kaohsiung has been building guitars now for over twenty years …
2 Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years .
3 Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours .
4 They 've been serving coffee here for three hundred years , ’ he confided .
5 I have been taking Woodworker now for some 10 years and have at last been inspired to write a letter replying to that of David Thomas in the December issue .
6 Dr Edgar Munhill , the Frick 's Curator , pointed out to The Art Newspaper , ‘ We have been doing exhibitions here for almost twenty years around aspects of our own collection , often not well known to the general public .
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