Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 2 | In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking . |
| 3 | The highest count in the alcohol group was 14.8% in a chronic alcoholic aged 49 years who had been drinking heavily since the age of 15 years . |
| 4 | The researchers identified 167 people who had been attending for a year or more . |
| 5 | I mean , you know , if you see an advert in the paper that tells you that every fifty pence you spend is going to save a child 's life by providing it with Diralite or providing it with food that it needs for a money , or something like that , I mean how can you justify keeping any fifty pences at all yourself ? |
| 6 | DEC was trying to gain visibility last week for the 661 companies it says are porting programs over Alpha . |
| 7 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 8 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 9 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 10 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Over the past 10 years we have been striving hard to maintain the numbers of part-time firefighters which are needed for this vital community service . ’ |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 13 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 17 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 18 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 19 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 20 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 21 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 22 | For three years he 's been training and testing out would be crews … |
| 23 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 24 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 25 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 26 | Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours . |
| 27 | MUSIC : The Scouse pop scene produced a lot of bright new bands and artists , and this year readers nominated three names who have been flying the flag not only locally but nationally . |
| 28 | Three patients who had been receiving specialist care were back in ordinary wards last night after the unit closed . |
| 29 | As he groggily came round he found himself surrounded by three youths he thought were trying to help him . |
| 30 | The three newspapers I took were sticking through my front door , which was at the side of the house . |