Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 2 | Northern Ireland has been warring for over 20 years . |
| 3 | She was lured into the private sector by the ambitious plans of her former colleague , Mr Colin Stringer , who has been dealing with mentally handicapped people for 25 years . |
| 4 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 5 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 6 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 7 | ‘ OPTIONS ’ has been running for over ten years in America , four years on the UK mainland and over two years in the province . |
| 8 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 9 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 10 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 11 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 12 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 13 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 14 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 15 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 16 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 17 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 18 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 19 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 20 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 21 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 22 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 23 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 24 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 25 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 26 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 27 | During the second half of the 1960s , GNP had been rising at about 3 per cent a year in Britain . |
| 28 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 29 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 30 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |