Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 2 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 3 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 4 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 5 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 6 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 7 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |
| 9 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 10 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 11 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 12 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 13 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’ |
| 15 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |