Example sentences of "we have been living " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 2 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 3 | ‘ We have been living in very poor lodgings , but hope soon to find better ones . ’ |
| 4 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 5 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 6 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 7 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
| 8 | We have been living beyond our means for too long and had better start tightening our belts . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
| 10 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 11 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 12 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |