Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 2 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 3 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 4 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 5 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 6 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 7 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |