Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 2 | HOUSE has been called for the last time at the Mecca bingo hall in Middlesbrough and its future is now uncertain . |
| 3 | The legendary Plaza ballroom will find itself playing host to the London Pink Dancers at the opening tea dance , and the cavernous Tramway has been earmarked for the last night ceilidh . |
| 4 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 5 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |
| 6 | Top of the agenda are the booms across the mouths of the lagoon for when the tides are especially high , and for the canal dredging , which has been neglected for the last forty years . |
| 7 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 8 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 9 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 10 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 11 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 12 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 13 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 15 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 16 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 17 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 18 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 19 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 20 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 21 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 22 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 23 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 24 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 25 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 26 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 27 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 28 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 29 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 30 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |