Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] it for [num] " 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 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 3 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 4 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 5 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 9 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 10 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 11 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 12 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 13 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 14 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 15 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |