Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] for [num] of " 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 | Although the NRA warned that the programme 's cost will be high , and that there are no " quick fix " remedies , solutions have been identified for 10 of the rivers . |
| 4 | Additives have been used for hundreds of years , though they were not always known as ‘ additives ’ . |
| 5 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 6 | The case ‘ will determine whether a seventh of British waterways … ( among the navigable rivers ) … will remain open … access to rivers that have been used for thousands of years could become open to challenge ’ . |
| 7 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 8 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |