Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for [num] week " in BNC.

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1 The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks .
2 I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks .
3 Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission .
4 So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal .
5 Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow .
6 Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks !
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