Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 3 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 4 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 5 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 6 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 7 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 8 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 9 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 10 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 11 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 12 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 13 | Non-pay items such as drugs and equipment have been running above 7 per cent as inflation generally has risen . |
| 14 | It 's lovely to receive your letters — the post has been taking about 11–14 days to get here and most of the letters appear to have been opened , but have arrived safely nevertheless . |
| 15 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 16 | ‘ Stand-to ’ , and a steady drizzle has been falling since 3 a.m . |
| 17 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 18 | Population ageing is operating at two distinct levels : societal and within the older age groups itself . |
| 19 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 20 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 21 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 22 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 23 | The Service has been operating since 1987 , and began distance radio training straight away , followed in 1989 by print journalism . |
| 24 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 25 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 26 | It is hoped to achieve the 15% reduction in staffing by the employment of temporary staff as vacancies occur and this policy has been operating since 1 April 1992 . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 28 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 29 | THE national lottery may be new in the UK but in Spain the big gamble game has been running for 180 years . |
| 30 | The Interior Ministry announced on May 22 that increasing unrest was the preliminary stage of a military coup which the banned Islamic fundamentalist Nahda movement had been preparing since 1988 . |