Example sentences of "been [verb] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 2 | Dolphin , which has been developing SCI over the last two years , will add its own SCI-based multi-processing system using the Motorola Inc 88110 later this year . |
| 3 | Sheila and Jim Smith from Abingdon have been fostering children for the last twenty-five years . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been running expeditions over the last 29 years and it was the most unpleasant , nasty experience and I do n't want to be involved in it in any way again , ’ he said . |
| 5 | G. visits a couple of pollutions which have been giving trouble in the last week or two . |
| 6 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 8 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 9 | And yet , as er as Linda said women have been playing football for the last seventy , and before that , I mean op , throughout the century women have been playing football ! |
| 10 | Melanie , their new PR , has been watching proceedings for the last few minutes . |
| 11 | Well done to … the Leeds branch of The Guild of Hairdressers who have been raising money over the last twelve months for the Children 's ’ Wing at the Seacroft Hospital . |