Example sentences of "has been [verb] [adv] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 2 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 3 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 4 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 5 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
| 6 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |