Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church introduced measures to control demolition over seven hundred years ago , and has been regularly inspecting churches for three hundred years . |
| 2 | No qualification period is required as the other criteria can not be fulfilled unless the applicant has been personally conducting cases for at least three years . |
| 3 | His forecasting staff in the Treasury might have been better suited to dreaming up horoscopes , and at times officials seem to have been deliberately distorting figures for political ends . |
| 4 | Jones and a group of friends , hunting the culprits , went to Mr Penrose 's home after hearing he had been allegedly giving cash for stolen goods , Cardiff Crown Court was told . |
| 5 | Recently , it was found that a mentally handicapped woman in Durham had been wrongly denied benefit for a number of years and that the cumulative total was £25,000 . |
| 6 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 7 | In fact , surgeons have been successfully transplanting valves for almost thirty years , saving thousands of lives . |
| 8 | When driving in the countryside you often see walking human haystacks — people , who have been out cutting grass for their cows , returning home and walking down the road often with only their legs showing beneath their enormous bundles . |