Example sentences of "and [noun] have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 2 | As you will know the local residents and visitors have been pressing for a footpath along Gubberford Lane for many years . |
| 3 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 4 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 5 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 6 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 7 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 8 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 9 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 10 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 11 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 12 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |