Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 32 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 33 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 34 | And the NRPB 's move also emphasized a process that had been continuing for many years . |
| 35 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 36 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 37 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 38 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 39 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 40 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |
| 41 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 42 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 43 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 44 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |