Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [pers pn] for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 2 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 3 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 4 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 5 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |