Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] them for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 2 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 3 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 4 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 5 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |