Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been pushing for more effective action from the NIO for years and it is utter nonsense to say otherwise , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 4 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 5 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 6 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 7 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 8 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 9 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 10 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |
| 11 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |