Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 2 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 3 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 4 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 5 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 6 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 7 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 8 | General Morillon has also been negotiating for the placing of six Muslim towns or enclaves to be put under UN protection . |
| 9 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |
| 10 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 11 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 12 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 13 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 14 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |