Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] [noun] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 2 | ‘ The teacher was not highly qualified but very much alive and specially trained in English medium teaching at Kagumo Training College nearby ; the children had been learning English for six months . |
| 3 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 4 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 5 | It had been losing money for 3 years . |