Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for [num] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 5 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 6 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 7 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 8 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 9 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 10 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 11 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |