Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] been [v-ing] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | GEORGE Duffield has been partnering winners for more than 25 years . |
| 2 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 3 | For more than a century the Board has been providing qualifications for industry that are internationally recognised and this pedigree leaves it ideally positioned to contribute to the growing need for transportable workplace focused qualifications . |
| 4 | Prince Sihanouk has been issuing entreaties for a peaceful election from his Beijing residence . |
| 5 | The Department has been organising seminars for writers , publishers and booksellers for the last fifteen years . |
| 6 | David 's been collecting cones for more than thirty years and since then he 's accumulated some real beauties . |
| 7 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 8 | One response to these statistics has been increasing demands for screening programmes . |
| 9 | If , over the last five years X/Open has been providing specifications for ‘ open systems plumbing , ’ bridging the gap between vendor products and user requirements , the introduction of XPG4 , X/Open hopes , will see it re-cast as a ‘ standards integrator . ’ |
| 10 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 11 | In recent years BR has been developing techniques for giving each of the business sectors responsibility for part of the network 's infrastructure costs . |
| 12 | A woman whose daughter died after a lifetime in pain with arthritis has been raising funds for research into the disease . |
| 13 | Hanson has been earning megabucks for decades ; his personal wealth is estimated at around £100m and speculation is rife that before he retires he will go out with a final spectacular takeover . |
| 14 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 15 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 16 | According to the US PC Week , the company has been outlining plans for a Workplace family of operating systems built under the Workplace Shell and a microkernel that will be scaled for machines ranging from handheld devices to multi-processer RISC machines . |
| 17 | I believe that , if it is established through a proper investigation that a company has been victimising workers for reporting safety concerns , that company — whether it is a contractor or an operator — must be in exactly the same position as an employee who has jeopardised the safety of a platform . |
| 18 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 19 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |