Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [adv] for [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |
| 2 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 3 | He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year . |
| 4 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 5 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |
| 6 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |