Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 2 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 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 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 5 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 8 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 9 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 12 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 13 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 14 | Kazakhstan was said to have been losing 150,000,000 roubles daily since May because of the difference between its fuel prices and those of Russia [ see also p. 38923 ] . |
| 15 | His lordship had been entertaining two guests , a young lady and gentleman , in the summerhouse , and had watched my father 's approach across the lawn bearing a much welcome tray of refreshments . |
| 16 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 17 | The patients in our trial had been smoking 25 cigarettes a year for 25 years . |
| 18 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 19 | Previous to the CITES ban on ivory , Japan had been buying 130 tonnes of ivory each year , which suggests a massive local demand for the new substitute . |
| 20 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 21 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 22 | Opposition leaders called for an investigation after Namaliu , who had been trailing 1,600 votes behind rival candidate Oscar Tammur at an early stage of the count , secured victory following an unexplained power blackout while the final ballot boxes were being processed . |
| 23 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 24 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 25 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
| 27 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 29 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 30 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |