Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [be] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
2 | ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years . |
3 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
4 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
5 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
6 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |