Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] for [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 unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 5 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 13 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 14 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 15 | THE national lottery may be new in the UK but in Spain the big gamble game has been running for 180 years . |
| 16 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 17 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 18 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 19 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |
| 20 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 21 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 22 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 23 | The scheme has been running for 11 years . |
| 24 | Once the scheme has been running for 20 years or more , claimants will not build up any more 80ths . |
| 25 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 26 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 27 | Grendon has been operating for 30 years and Judge Stephen Tumim 's report , published today , praises them for their standards of humanity , care and dignity . |
| 28 | ‘ The class has been running for 2½ years ’ What stamina ! |