Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France has been paying US$20 million a year to have nuclear waste reprocessed in Russia , reportedly at the Tomsk plant . |
| 2 | Total expenditure on transport services around 1750 probably exceeded £1.25 million a year ; by 1800 it was probably over £3 million , and by 1815 may have been approaching £5 million . |
| 3 | Dickerson and Lee seem to have been saving Malcolm X up for years ; they were buddies at film school . |
| 4 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 5 | The gunmen had been demanding $6 million and changes in the Nicaraguan government . |
| 6 | Chaovalit had been cultivating Class 5 in order to underpin his political ambitions [ for 1988 and 1989 military reshuffles see p. 37083 ] . |
| 7 | I 've been using Lotus 1-2-3 to draw various graphs from the data I collect each week . |
| 8 | You 've been reading B one 's all week . |
| 9 | You 've been reading B one 's for weeks have n't you ? |
| 10 | Then Bert , " They have been fining people twenty-five pounds . " |