Example sentences of "[adj] years i [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 2 | For some years I have been campaigning to open up the unofficial footpath along the north edge of the field bordering Baberton golf course , which links Muirwood Road to Bloomiehall Park . |
| 3 | For some years I have been running what is the largest programme in the world for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject in schools . |
| 4 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 5 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 6 | ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me . |
| 7 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 8 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 9 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 10 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 11 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 12 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 13 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 14 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 15 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 16 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 17 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 18 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 19 | She wrote ‘ During the past two years I have been working ( with Mr Wilmott 's co-operation ) towards the publication of a Flora of the ‘ Outer Islands ’ , concerning which there is a considerable scattered literature , but no comprehensive publication . |
| 20 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 21 | It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 23 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |