Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 2 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 3 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 4 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 5 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 6 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 7 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 8 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |