Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [adv] for a " in BNC.

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1 We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages .
2 ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London .
3 Larry and Tina have been living together for a year .
4 We have been arguing here for a view of the state in which governments are managing not only class and social relations but also individuals .
5 The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years .
6 Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well .
7 I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true
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