Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 2 | That is serious in view of the fact that the committee has been running for more than four years . |
| 3 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 4 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 5 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 6 | The crisis had been brewing for so long , however , that the tsar could not be bought off with a decision on the Holy Places . |
| 7 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 8 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 9 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 10 | ’ — and the Project had been going for so long , you see . |
| 11 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 12 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 13 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 14 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 15 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 16 | Experiments to find vine clones best suited to the solumological and climatical conditions of Champagne have been continuing for more than twenty years . |
| 17 | The bull market had been raging for more than five years in the US . |