Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One well at Cusiana has been producing 10,000 b/d on a long-term test and the development phase is about to begin . |
| 2 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |
| 3 | For two years now , the first Astra has been broadcasting 16 channels of TV programmes , including Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Channels , right across Europe . |
| 4 | Thames Water has been losing seventeen percent of its supplies from leaks , but are now confident they can reduce that figure dramatically . |
| 5 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 6 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 7 | Alan Stockton , of the University of Hawaii , has been investigating three quasars with redshifts between 0.07 and 0.26 , each of which has a very close companion galaxy ( Astrophysical Journal , vol 257 , p 33 ) . |
| 8 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |