Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] [prep] [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 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 3 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 4 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 5 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 8 | Local artist Hazel Albarn has been working with ten and 11-year-olds and their teachers , helping them design and create large sculptures relating to their other work topics . |
| 9 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 10 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 11 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 12 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | F. In North Wales a small coalfield near Wrexham has been declining from 24 pits in 1930 to just 2 in 1983 . |
| 16 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 17 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 18 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 19 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 20 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 21 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 22 | Non-pay items such as drugs and equipment have been running above 7 per cent as inflation generally has risen . |
| 23 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 24 | It 's lovely to receive your letters — the post has been taking about 11–14 days to get here and most of the letters appear to have been opened , but have arrived safely nevertheless . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The GHS has been running since 1972 and is a large-scale survey designed to meet the information needs of a variety of different government departments . |
| 27 | ‘ Stand-to ’ , and a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m . |
| 28 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 29 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 30 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |