Example sentences of "it [verb] been [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 2 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 3 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 4 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 5 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 6 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 7 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 8 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 9 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 11 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 12 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |