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Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [det] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I have been doing this for over ten years .
2	I have been doing this for the past 15 years .
3	I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it !
4	As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans .
5	In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings .
6	We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip .
7	We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination .
8	We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging .
9	‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added .
10	Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time .
11	They have been doing this in Suffolk for almost 110 years , comforting the sick and lonely , and relieving the worries of the anxious and elderly .
12	But they have been saying that for 20 years .
13	Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ?