Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] for more " in BNC.

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1 While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year .
2 I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’
3 Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies .
4 It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week .
5 Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack .
6 Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money
7 Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit .
8 It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year .
9 Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision .
10 I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration .
11 David Linley , 31 , and 22-year-old Serena , who is the grand-daughter of wealthy Lord Harrington , have been dating for more than a year .
12 The retailers Carpenter 's have been trading for more than a century .
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