Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 2 | Take the High Road , which has been running for 13 years , does n't make the ratings tables because it is not slotted in a peak viewing time across the country . |
| 3 | The worry for regular viewers to the series which has been running for 19 years , is that the ethos of the programme may be changed to pander to the larger English audience . |
| 4 | But the rehabilitation centre which has been running for 21 years could be closed within the year . |
| 5 | Voluntary Project administrator Roy Montgomery is convinced the scheme , which has been running for three months , is a major success — and a lifeline for local young people . |
| 6 | The Milk Race , which has been running for 25 years , is like a wagon train as it winds its way through the country . |
| 7 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 8 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 9 | ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years . |
| 10 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 11 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 12 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 13 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 14 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 15 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 16 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 17 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 18 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 19 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 20 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 21 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 22 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 23 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 24 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 25 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 26 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 27 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 28 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 29 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 30 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |