Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been smoking cigarettes for years . |
| 3 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 4 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 5 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 6 | I carve the meat and prepare vegetables and stuffings — all my life I have been preparing things for somebody ! |
| 7 | For more than a decade I have been running workshops for Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) students at the University of London , first at the Institute of Education and later at Chelsea College and King 's College . |
| 8 | Touche Ross , who have been handling negotiations for the sale of the American style Marvels park , say there are several potential buyers . |
| 9 | no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ? |
| 10 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 11 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 12 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 13 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 14 | In the face of sustained high levels of non-excused absenteeism in Britain 's schools , ( up to one in ten pupils in some secondary schools ) , there have been increasing calls for more active legal intervention in truancy cases , from head teachers , school inspectors , the DES ( Circular 2/86 ) and a number of MPs . |
| 15 | The difference is that they are now employed by the businesses to whom they have been supplying services for some time . ’ |