Example sentences of "[noun] had be [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 5 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 8 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 13 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 14 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 15 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 16 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 17 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 18 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 19 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 20 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |