Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 2 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 3 | DARLINGTON discovery Andrew Pyrah , who has been running seriously for only 18 months , won the Man of the Match award in the Woolworth Young Athletes match at Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 4 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 5 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 6 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 7 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 8 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 9 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 10 | This one seems to have been going on for far too long ! |
| 11 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 12 | He had been coming regularly for almost sixty years , and was only fourteen when he bought his first pony there for £4.10s . |
| 13 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 14 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 15 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 16 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 17 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 18 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 19 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 20 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 21 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 22 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 23 | He was not hurrying , but his attitude suggested he thought Anna and Seb had been talking together for quite long enough . |
| 24 | The rain had been falling now for more than four hours . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been thinking objectively for once . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 27 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 28 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 29 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 30 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |