Example sentences of "[that] have [been] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | This is unfortunate , for a series that has been gestating for three years . |
2 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
3 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
4 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
5 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
6 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |