Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 2 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 3 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 4 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 5 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 6 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |