Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] been [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 2 | Models have been wearing them for years . |
| 3 | ‘ Although the name is new , many of the ideas forming general SVQs have been exercising us for years . |
| 4 | What is even worse is that desktop publishing delivers to the mass market at a ridiculously low price the technology that traditional electronic publishing system suppliers have been promising us for years — the ability to mix text and graphics freely on a page . |
| 5 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 6 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 7 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 8 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |