Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [be] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 2 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 3 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 4 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 5 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 6 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 7 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 8 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 9 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 10 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 11 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |