Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] in [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 4 | Originally from Inverness , Mr Cordial and his family have been living in Durham for 40 years . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 6 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 7 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 8 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 9 | Sabine , whose mother is German and father is Irish , has been living in Stuttgart for one year . |
| 10 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 11 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 12 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 13 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 14 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 15 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 16 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 17 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |