Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 2 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 9 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 10 | I 've been juggling for about 5 months and it 's a good place to meet new friends . |
| 11 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 13 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 14 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 15 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 16 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 17 | It 's been going for about two now |
| 18 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 19 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |