Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 3 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 4 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 5 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 6 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 7 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |
| 9 | Establishing rapport is the process of getting on the right wavelength with someone — usually , but not inevitably , with someone you are meeting for the first time . |
| 10 | and Q acted upon by unc and unc are essentially the same , we are meeting for the first time a concept of prime importance in algebra , namely that of isomorphism . |
| 11 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 12 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 13 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 14 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 15 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 16 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 17 | Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ? |
| 18 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 19 | The Ryehill Course near Bloxham in Oxfordshire is where we 're going for the first in a new series of the Friday Feature . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , because we know exactly what we 're paying for the next 3 years ’ |
| 21 | In fact this is a year when we 're spending for the next adoptions . |
| 22 | they 're advertising for the first time or the last ad |
| 23 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 24 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 25 | ‘ Some of the Wimbledon Dharjees , ’ went on Maisie , ‘ have been waiting for the Twenty-fourth Imam . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 27 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 28 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 29 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 30 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |