Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 3 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 4 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 5 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 6 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 7 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 8 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 9 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 10 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 11 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 12 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 13 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 14 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 15 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 16 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 17 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 18 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 19 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 20 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 21 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 22 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 23 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 24 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 25 | THE national lottery may be new in the UK but in Spain the big gamble game has been running for 180 years . |
| 26 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 27 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 28 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 29 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 30 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |