Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been operating " in BNC.

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1 In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation .
2 The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years .
3 It was translated to Russian and became a popular minicomputer product in the former Soviet Union , where more than 600 mid-range machines have been operating Pick-based applications for the past 10 years .
4 In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years .
5 Courses have been operating since January and have been well supported .
6 Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed .
7 For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land .
8 Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities .
9 Few LEA officers have any experience of delegated budgets in schools or have themselves worked in schools where pilot schemes have been operating .
10 The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors .
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