Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 2 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 3 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 4 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 5 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |