Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 32 | The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks . |
| 33 | The scheme has been running for 11 years . |
| 34 | Once the scheme has been running for 20 years or more , claimants will not build up any more 80ths . |
| 35 | ‘ The class has been running for 2½ years ’ What stamina ! |
| 36 | The Milk Race , which has been running for 25 years , is like a wagon train as it winds its way through the country . |
| 37 | But the rehabilitation centre which has been running for 21 years could be closed within the year . |
| 38 | The worry for regular viewers to the series which has been running for 19 years , is that the ethos of the programme may be changed to pander to the larger English audience . |
| 39 | The BA Honours Degree in Retail Marketing , formulated by JS and Manchester Metropolitan University , has been running for three years and the two parties have now formally signed a contract securing the future of the programme . |
| 40 | Voluntary Project administrator Roy Montgomery is convinced the scheme , which has been running for three months , is a major success — and a lifeline for local young people . |
| 41 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 42 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 43 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 44 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 45 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 46 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 47 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 48 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 49 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 50 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 51 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 52 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 53 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 54 | The Nuclear Test Veterans Association has been fighting for 10 years to get compensation for British servicemen who were on the Pacific islands when the tests took place in the 1950s . |
| 55 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 56 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 57 | The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community . |
| 58 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 59 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 60 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |