Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] for [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 2 | Northern Ireland has been warring for over 20 years . |
| 3 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 4 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 5 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 6 | ‘ OPTIONS ’ has been running for over ten years in America , four years on the UK mainland and over two years in the province . |
| 7 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 8 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 9 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 10 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 11 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 12 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 13 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 14 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 15 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 16 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 17 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 18 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 19 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 20 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 21 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 22 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 23 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 24 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 25 | Carol Clark had been missing for almost 40 hours before her body was found at Sharpness . |
| 26 | Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks . |
| 27 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 28 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 29 | In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma . |
| 30 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |