Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salaries of senior directors have been rising by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent over the last year and the trend shows little sign of slowing . |
| 2 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 3 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 4 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 5 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 6 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 7 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 8 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 9 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |