Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that very few reservoirs have been functioning for more than 10 years , cases have been described in which dysplasia and carcinoma have been seen in colitic pouches and adenomas in FAP pouches . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 4 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 5 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 6 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 7 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 8 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 9 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 10 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 11 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 12 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 13 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |