Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [v-ing] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 2 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 3 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 4 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 5 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 6 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 9 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 10 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 11 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 12 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 14 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 15 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |
| 17 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |