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 . |