Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 2 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 3 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 4 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 5 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 6 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 7 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 8 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 9 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 10 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 11 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 12 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 13 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 14 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 15 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 16 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 17 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 18 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 19 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 20 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 21 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 22 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 23 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 24 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 25 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 26 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 27 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 28 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 29 | Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 . |
| 30 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |