Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] for a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 2 | ‘ This is particularly true in the area of the trial , which is close to Peldon , where resistant strains of blackgrass have been seen for a number of years . |
| 3 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Moreover , so-called inequities have been addressed for a number of years . |
| 5 | Kin sets have been simulated for a number of demographic regimes , including several in English history and those which would come about in China as that country approached a one child per family fertility level . |