Example sentences of "[pron] has been [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 2 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 3 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 4 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 5 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 6 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 7 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 8 | But the station 's spokesman Jeff Simpson said last night : ‘ It 's a direction in which Radio One has been going for a couple of years . |
| 9 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 10 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 11 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 12 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |