Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 2 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 3 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 4 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 5 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 6 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 7 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 8 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 9 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 10 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 11 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 12 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 13 | Norwich 's victory was a triumph for the tactical surprise sprung by manager Walker , who deployed a sweeper to curb the threat of Villa dangermen Dean Saunders and Dalian Atkinson , who have been running amok in the last two months . |
| 14 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 15 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 16 | However , it is not commonly recognised that the Anglican liturgy has been evolving continuously since the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 18 | The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War . |
| 19 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 20 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 21 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |