Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 2 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 3 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 5 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 6 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 8 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 9 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 10 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 11 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 12 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |